Kate Brooks is a writer living in Toronto. Her work has been longlisted for the Room Magazine Fiction Contest, twice for the CBC Short Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Malahat Review Open Season Award, Metatron Press’ Prize for Rising Authors, and Eavesdrop Magazine’s Queer Joy Poetry Contest. Her writing has been published in WHOIS Journal, Kitchen Table Quarterly, and Headlight Anthology, among others, and her debut chapbook Ficus was published digitally through Metatron Press. She is currently writing her first novel with funding from the Toronto and Ontario Arts Councils.