Kate Feld is an American writer living outside Manchester. She lectures in journalism at the University of Salford and works for Manchester Literature Festival. Her essays have been published in Caught by The River and the Flax Books creative nonfiction anthology Mostly Truthful. Her fiction has appeared in Neon and won the 2014 Flashtag Short Short Story Slam. She co-edits The Real Story (@realstoryuk), an online creative nonfiction journal and reading series in Manchester.