Kat Meads is the author of 20 books and chapbooks of poetry and prose. Her short plays have been produced in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and elsewhere. A native of North Carolina, she lives in California and teaches in Oklahoma City University's Red Earth MFA program. Kirkus Reviews described her latest fiction, Miss Jane: The Lost Years, set in the 1970s, as a "sharp and tightly crafted tale.... Incredibly relevant to today's reckoning with powerful men's sexual abuse of the women around them."