Kathy Fish

Kathy Fish teaches for the Mile High MFA at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. Three of her stories have been Best Small Fictions winners. Widely read, taught, shared, and discussed on social media, Fish’s “Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild” which addresses the scourge of America’s gun violence and mass shootings, was selected for Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, edited by Sheila Heti. The piece was also chosen by Aimee Bender for Best Small Fictions 2018. This piece will also be featured in an upcoming edition of The Norton Reader. Additionally, two of Fish’s stories are featured in the W.W. Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (2018). Fish has published five collections of short fiction: a chapbook in the Rose Metal Press collective, A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women (2008); Wild Life (Matter Press, 2011); Together We Can Bury It (The Lit Pub, 2012); and Rift, co-authored with Robert Vaughan (Unknown Press, 2015). Her most recent collection, Wild Life: Collected Stories from 2003-2018 released in late 2018 from Matter Press. Visit her website here: www.kathy-fish.com Her profile on Goodreads may be found here: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1199959.Kathy_Fish