Kate Doyle is the author of the short story collection "I Meant It Once."
Author photos by Alana Davis Photography
Kate Doyle is the author of the debut short story collection I Meant It Once.
Longlisted for the Story Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, I Meant It Once was described as “quietly devastating… unmistakably individual and exciting” in the Irish Times and was featured title in the Cork International Short Story Festival.
Kate’s writing has been published in No Tokens, Electric Literature, Split Lip, Chicago Review of Books, Joyland, The Millions, Lit Hub, Wigleaf, ANMLY, and elsewhere, and she has received support from Creative Europe, A Public Space, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hawthornden Foundation, New York University, and the Adirondack Center for Writing.
In summer 2025 Kate directed Furniture Boysby Emily Weitzman at the Edinburgh Fringe, hailed in The Guardian as “a beautifully controlled production that’s alternately ridiculous and revelatory.”
Kate has lived in New York City, where she received an MFA from NYU, and in Ithaca, NY, where she worked at a bookshop. She now lives in Amsterdam and runs Luna Boeken, a project to support authors with book publicity.
