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 writing has appeared in River Teeth Journal, Reckoning Magazine, The Rumpus, and is forthcoming in Fourth Genre. She has received support for her work from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Iowa Arts Council, and the National Science Foundation, and her first essay collection, Gulfwater, was published with Sunset Press in Spring 2021. Her piece “Feedings” 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 in 2024. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. She is currently an Iowa Writers’ Room Independent Fellow for 2025-2026.