Liv Kane served as the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the San Antonio Public Library and received the New York Life Award for her work in 2019. A graduate of Kenyon College and a recipient of the George B. Ogden Award, her work has appeared in River Teeth Journal, Reckoning Magazine, The Rumpus, and is forthcoming in Fourth Genre. She was a finalist for Bellingham Review’s Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, as well as the Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize, and was awarded the NWP’s Magdalena Prize for her essay “Feedings.” Her first essay collection, Gulfwater, was published with Sunset Press in Spring 2021. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa, where she is an Iowa Arts Fellow.