Kathryn Kulpa

Fiction Writer

Providence, RI
Rhode Island US
Website: 
www.kathrynkulpa.com
RSS feed: 
substack.com/@kathrynk

Author's Bio

Kathryn Kulpa writes short stories, flash fiction, and prose poetry. Her award-winning flash fiction chapbook A Map of Lost Places was published by Gold Line Press, 2025. She is also the author of For Every Tower, a Princess (Porkbelly Press, 2024) and Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted (New Rivers Press, 2023). She was a winner of the Vella Chapbook Contest for Girls on Film (Paper Nautilus Press, 2016) and received the First Series Award for her short story collection Pleasant Drugs (Mid-List Press). Her stories have been featured in several anthologies, including the Best Microfiction series (2020-2022, 2025) and Best Small Fictions (2024).

Kathryn has published short fiction in Flash Frog, Florida Review, Ghost Parachute, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Matchbook, Monkeybicycle, Smokelong Quarterly, trampset, Wigleaf, and many other journals. She is a flash editor at Cleaver magazine and leads writing workshops through the magazine. She has also led workshops for the International Women's Writing Guild (IWWG), Truro Center for the Arts, Writespace, University of Rhode Island, and the Stonecoast Writers Conference. She was a writer in residence at Linden Place in Bristol, RI, and a visiting writer at Wheaton College in Norton, MA and Writers-in-the-Schools, Rhode Island. 

Writers Retreats: 
Vermont Studio Center

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Best Microfiction (Pelekinesis, 2025)
,
The Great Gatsby Anthology (Silver Birch Press, 2015)
,
Regrets Only: Contemporary Poets on the Theme of Regret (Little Pear Press, 2006)
,
In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself (MW Enterprises, 2005)
,
Sundays at Sarah's: An Anthology of Women's Writing (Little Pear Press, 2003)
,
Alphabet Faucet: Pocket Prose (Bottom Dog Press, 2000)
Books:
A Map of Lost Places (Gold Line Press, 2025)
,
Best Small Fictions 2024 (Alternating Current Press, 2024)
,
Best Microfiction 2020 (Pelekinesis, 2020)
,
Girls on Film (Paper Nautilus, 2016)
,
It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure (Harper Perennial, 2010)
,
Pleasant Drugs : Stories (Midlist Press, 2005)
Chapbooks:
For Every Tower, a Princess (Porkbelly Press, 2024)
,
Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted (New Rivers Press, 2023)
Journals:
100 Word Story
,
Artful Dodge
,
Asimov's Sci-Fi Magazine
,
Autumn Sky Poetry Daily
,
Bellevue Literary Review
,
Blink-Ink
,
Bull: Men's Fiction
,
Carve Magazine
,
Cleaver Magazine
,
Decomp
,
Fictive Dream
,
Five South
,
Florida Review
,
Foliate Oak
,
Foundling Review
,
Ghost Parachute
,
Hayden's Ferry Review
,
Jellyfish Review
,
KYSO Flash
,
Leviathan
,
Lunch Ticket
,
Madison Review
,
Margin: Exploring Magic Realism
,
Matchbook
,
McNeese Review
,
Metazen
,
Monkeybicycle
,
Moon City Review
,
NANO Fiction
,
New Renaissance
,
Okay Donkey
,
Pedestal Magazine
,
Pidgeonholes
,
Pithead Chapel
,
Quality Women's Fiction
,
Saranac Review
,
Seventeen
,
SmokeLong Quarterly
,
Superstition Review
,
Thrice Fiction
,
Trampset
,
Unbroken
,
Wigleaf
,
Women's Studies Quarterly
,
Your Impossible Voice
Prizes won: 

The Sunlight Press: First Prize, Flash Fiction Contest 2025 ;

Gooseberry Pie: Third Prize, Flash Fiction Contest 2025 ; 

Gold Line Press Chapbook Contest: winner for A Map of Lost Places, 2024 ;

Wigleaf Top 50: 2024 longlist for "Big Jack" and "T, My Name is Tonya" ;

Porkbelly Press Chapbook Contest: winner for For Every Tower, a Princess, 2024 ;

Gooseberry Pie: Second Prize, Flash Fiction Contest 2024; 

New Rivers Press Chapbook Contest, first prize for Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted, 2023 ;

Lascaux Review, Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction, 2023 Finalist ;

Bath Flash Fiction Prize: Longlisted for "To My Mother, in the Air," 2023 ;

Bath Flash Fiction Prize: Longlisted for "Passerine," 2022 ;

Wigleaf Top 50: 2022 longlist for "A Brief Catalog of Venial Sins" ;

Flash Fiction Magazine, first prize for "Exterminating Angel," 2022 ; second prize for "How I Learned to Read," 2021 ;

Best Microfiction, 2020, 2021, 2022 ;

Lascaux Review, Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction, 2019 Finalist ;

Vella Chapbook Contest, for Girls on Film (Paper Nautilus, 2016) ; 

First Series Award in Short Fiction, for Pleasant Drugs (Mid-List Press, 2005) ; 

101 Words, Issue 23 Contest Winner ; 

the new renaissance Louise E. Reynolds Memorial Fiction Award ; 

Florida Review Editors' Award ; 

Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist

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Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Teenagers
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Providence, RI
Rhode Island
Raised in: 
Somerset, MA
Massachusetts
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Last update: Dec 19, 2025