Kerry Donoghue is the author of MOUTH (Unsolicited Press, 2025), which Debutiful named as one of the best short story collections of 2025. Her poetry and stories have appeared in Ninth Letter, Painted Bride Quarterly, Permafrost, The Louisville Review, and The South Carolina Review, among other journals. She earned an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco and was a fiction cohort for the 2025 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out publicity incubator. She’s currently at work on her first novel.