Kat Tang is a former lawyer turned fiction writer with an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Electric Literature, The Margins, Pigeon Pages, Driftwood Press, and others. She spends most of her time thinking about writing, and sometimes she even writes.
Her debut novel, FIVE-STAR STRANGER, is coming out with Scribner Books on August 6, 2024. She is hard at work on a second novel.
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WRITING AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Nominated for Best of the Net Award
Long Listed for A Public Space Fellowship
Nominated for PEN/Dau Best Debut Short Story
Second Place for Momaya Press Short Story Contest
Honorable Mention for Pigeon Pages Short Story Contest; Judged by Julia Phillips
Distinction for Disquiet Literary Contest
Nominated for De Alba Award at Columbia University
Long Listed for Fish Anthology
Summer Literary Seminar in Tbilisi, Georgia