Kat Meads

Kat Meads, a writer of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, was born and raised in eastern North Carolina. She holds an undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and an MFA from the University of North Carolina – Greensboro. She has received an NEA (2003), a California Artist Fellowship (2002), the "Chelsea" Award for Fiction (1996) and the "New Letters" Award for Essay (1986). Her short plays have been performed in New York and Los Angeles. Her most recent work is a novel in the form of a mock biography, "The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan Benedict Roberts Duncan" (2006).

Works

*"Filming the Everyday" (poetry) (1989)
*"Wayward Women" (fiction) (1995)
*"Born Southern and Restless" (nonfiction) (1996)
*"The Queendom" (poetry) (1998)
*"Night Bones" (poetry) (2000)
*"Not Waving" (fiction) (2001)
*"Stress in America" (fiction) (2001)
*"Quizzing the Dead" (poetry) (2002)
*"Sleep" (fiction) (2004)
*"The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan Benedict Roberts Duncan" (fiction) (2006)

External links

* [http://www.katmeads.com Kat Meads' Website]
*" [http://www.drunkenboat.com/db8/panlitnonfiction/meads On Fighting the Temptation to Fictionalize Marina Oswald] ” by Kat Meads