Kate Hill Cantrill is an American writer. Her short stories collection Walk Back from Monkey School was published in 2012. Her writing has appeared in literary publications including Story  Quarterly, Salt Hill, The Believer, and others. She has been awarded several fellowships, from the  Corporation of Yaddo, the Jentel Artists Residency and others. She has taught fiction writing at The University of the Arts, The University of Texas, and the Sackett Street Workshop. She lives in Brooklyn where she curates the Rabbit Tales Reading and Performance Series and is completing a novel.