Dear DeeDee (Paperback) by KatMeads Paperback, Published 2020 by Regal House Publishing Llc, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-64603-015-6, ISBN: 1-64603-015-X
2(Updated) 12 a.m.: Essays by KatMeads Paperback, 170 Pages, Published 2013 by Stephen F. Austin University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62288-039-3, ISBN: 1-62288-039-0
""2:12 a.m." is an insomniac's tour of counterproductive bedtime stories, Vegas weddings, Southern funerals, Nevada's nuclear testing grounds, Patty Hearst, Marina Oswald, sleepwalking murderers, Louise Bourgeois's "Insomnia Drawings" and more, revealing what wakeful nights conjure for a North Carolinian turned Californian, a farm child turned suburbanite, a 1960s romantic turned fatalist and a once-but-no-longer "gifted" sleeper. The c ..."
"Narrated in part by a ghost, When the Dust Finally Settles is a novel focused on land, loyalty, and Southern racial politics in 1968. Mawatuck County (also the setting for Meads's The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan) is a place where the present continually collides with the past."
Not Waving(1st Edition) by KatMeads Paperback, 213 Pages, Published 2006 by Livingston Press ISBN-13: 978-0-942979-83-1, ISBN: 0-942979-83-4
"Fiction. In this new compilation of previously published stories Kat Meads, the award-wining author, reveals the secret selves of the ordinary person. In these seductive and witty short stories, Meads startles with her ability to pull us into the lives of her seemingly ordinary characters. "With mordant wit, a gemcutter's nerve, and an open heart, Kat Meads catches her characters as their composure slips and the truth, in all its fun an ..."
"From D. H. Lawrence to Philip Roth, acclaimed male writers have depicted sex from the perspective of female characters. Now, women writers from Aimee Bender to Jennifer Egan engage in provocative fictional cross-dressing, exploring sexuality from the male point of view. With a foreword by Steve Almond, this provocative collection includes work from twenty-six women in all, including Bender, Egan, Susan Minot, Elizabeth Benedict, Alicia ..."
"Built on the premise that the ugly can break one's heart more profoundly than the pretty, In This Season of Rage and Melancholy Such Irrevocable Acts as These portrays the changing South of the 1970s in a narrative that encompasses deceit, revenge, Pentecostal religion, coastal development and the disappearance of family farms."
For You, Madam Lenin(1st Edition) by KatMeads Paperback, 283 Pages, Published 2012 by Livingston Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-60489-100-3, ISBN: 1-60489-100-9
"Silver Medal, Independent Publishers (IPPY)Foreword Reviews Book of the Year finalist Conspiring with the females, For You, Madam Lenin presents the Russian Revolution(s) and more through the eyes of Nadezhda Krupskaya and her acerbic mother, singularly unimpressed with son-in-law Vladimir Lenin. "
Miss Jane by KatMeads Published 2018 by Livingston Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60489-200-0, ISBN: 1-60489-200-5
""A spirited dive into sexual politics narrated by a fierce (and funny) female chorus, Miss Jane chronicles a farm girl's entanglement with Prof P, serial bedder of undergrads."
The Queendom by KatMeads Paperback, 113 Pages, Published 1998 by Linear Arts ISBN-13: 978-1-891219-73-3, ISBN: 1-891219-73-1
For You, Madam Lenin (Hardback) by KatMeads Hardcover, 283 Pages, Published 2012 by Livingston Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60489-099-0, ISBN: 1-60489-099-1
"In the tradition of the great Russian novels, Kat Meads takes on revolution, marriage, political intrigue, and a mother-daughter bond made of iron in this clever and subversive historical saga."
Little Pockets of Alarm Tales Short and Shorter by KatMeads Paperback, 146 Pages, Published 2009 by Main Street Rag ISBN-13: 978-1-59948-165-4, ISBN: 1-59948-165-0
"The Invented Life is a mock biography of rebel-in-her-own-time Kitty Duncan, a gal who comes of age in the 1950s South alongside a mother June Cleaver would envy. Of absolutely no interest to Kitty: acting docile, playing dumb, losing her suntan, remaining a virgin, and doing anything anyone insists she should do. Biographer/narrator Mo first encounters Kitty at Clemmons University, where Mo is a freshman and Kitty an eighteen-year-old ..."
Sleep(1st Edition) by KatMeads Paperback, 214 Pages, Published 2006 by Livingston Press ISBN-13: 978-1-931982-28-3, ISBN: 1-931982-28-7
"Fiction. A dystopic novel including a trio of rebellious teenage girls, a wired and paranoid commander, a faithful lieutenant protecting her commander, a babbling genius whose photographic memory has gone awry, and sundry villains and heroes. Meads examines this not-so-distant future not to entertain us with techno-gadgetry, but to reflect on our own time and find that general emotional confusion remains the human constant, no matter wh ..."
Quizzing the dead(1st Edition) (Pudding House Publications chapbook series) by KatMeads 31 Pages, Published 2002 by Pudding House Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-58998-117-1, ISBN: 1-58998-117-0
"Quizzing the Dead $8.95 Kat Meads Pudding House Publications Chapbook
Series ISBN 1-58998-117-0 Kat Meads is ... of short fiction, Not Waving (
Livingston Press/University of West Alabama) and Stress in America (March
Street Press)."
Stress in America by KatMeads Paperback, 35 Pages, Published 2001 by March Street Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-882983-72-8, ISBN: 1-882983-72-6
Wayward women stories by KatMeads Paperback, 33 Pages, Published 1995 by Illinois Writers, Inc., Isu ISBN-13: 978-0-9642298-1-5, ISBN: 0-9642298-1-1
Filming the Everyday by KatMeads Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 1989 by Lightning Tree Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-89016-094-7, ISBN: 0-89016-094-5
"This title presents an annual journal devoted to fairy tales, contemporary and historical.Each issue of "Fairy Tale Review" contains poetry, fiction, and essays that either address the abiding influence of fairy tales on contemporary literature and culture, or are themselves contemporary fairy tales in prose or verse. It is, according to editor Kate Bernheimer, "a venue for all writers working with the aesthetics and motifs of fairy tal ..."
Sleep A Novel by KatMeads Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2004 by Livingston Press (Al) ISBN-13: 978-1-931982-27-6, ISBN: 1-931982-27-9
Not Waving Stories by KatMeads Hardcover, 213 Pages, Published 2001 by Livingston Press (Al) ISBN-13: 978-0-942979-84-8, ISBN: 0-942979-84-2