Kate McGunagle

Kate (she/they) is a queer and genderqueer playwright, multimedia visual artist, and storyteller. She is deeply interested in art and stories that wrestle with the seemingly impossible – those that examine queer bodies, experience, and pleasure, interrogate rape culture and gendered violence, and revel in the spaces between social categories and within ordinary life.

Kate is a graduate of Boston University’s M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and Princeton University. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Five Points, Passages North, The Whitefish Review, and The North American Review. Their essay “Passive Voice” was the recipient of the 2021 Terry Tempest Williams Prize in Creative Nonfiction and recognized as a Notable Essay in the Best American Essays 2022. They are the author behind the Substack My Dear Queer.

Kate was a 2022-23 fellow through the Tennessee Playwrights Studio. Plays include M (TPS), SISTER OF MINE (October 2023 world premiere via the Strides Collective), WOMAN OTHER, CAT THINGS, and JUDITH GOES TO CHURCH.