Kat Meads is the author of Little Pockets of Alarm, The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan, Sleep, Born Southern and Restless, Not Waving and other books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a California Artist Fellowship and artist residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, Millay Colony, and elsewhere. Other awards include the Chelsea award for fiction, the New Letters award for essay, and the Editors' Choice Award in Nonfiction in Drunken Boat's Panliterary Competition. Her short plays have been produced in New York and Los Angeles.

Her speculative novel, Sleep, was long listed for the 2004 James Tiptree Award, judged, among others, by Ursula Le Guin. Her most recent book publication, Little Pockets of Alarm, was runner-up for the 2006 University of Massachusetts Press's Juniper Prize. Recent essays have appeared in Agni Online, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Prick of the Spindle, South Loop Review and Chicago Quarterly Review. For five years, she served as Writing Program Coordinator at UCSC Extension.

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