K.C. Mead-Brewer

Fiction Writer

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Author's Bio

K.C. Mead-Brewer is an author and editor living in Baltimore, MD. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and is included in both 2019’s Best Small Fictions and 2019’s Best Micro Fiction. Her short story “The Daddy Thing” was one of Electric Literature’s 32 most-read stories of the decade.

K.C. is a graduate of the 2018 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop and Tin House’s 2018 Winter Workshop for Short Fiction. She loves to read and write stories of the eerie, uncanny, and unsettling variety. 

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Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
And If That Mockingbird Don't Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative (Alternating Current Press, 2021)
Journals:
7x7
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Cheap Pop
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Craft
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Joyland
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Matchbook
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McNeese Review
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Necessary Fiction
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No Contact
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Strange Horizons
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Tiny Molecules
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Trampset
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Prizes won: 

2020 Montana Prize in Fiction, selected by Andrew Sean Greer, CutBank Magazine

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
NC
North Carolina
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Last update: Oct 17, 2022