© Zach Parks

KATE ARDEN MCMULLEN is the Associate Publisher of Hub City Press. A writer, editor, and book designer, she was born and raised in piedmont North Carolina and received her MFA in fiction from UNC-Wilmington. Her fiction has appeared in Ninth Letter, BULL, Carve Magazine, The BoilerFoglifter, The Pinch, and Reckon Review, among other outlets. A Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, she lives in Upstate South Carolina with her spouse.