Kathleen Davis Sullivan (she/her) is a writer, literary translator, and educator based in Northwest Arkansas. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing & Translation at the University of Arkansas. She writes fiction and translates literature from Arabic and French. When she’s not reading or writing, you can find her herding her five cats.

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Kathleen Davis Sullivan (she/her) is a writer, literary translator, and educator based in Northwest Arkansas. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing & Translation at the University of Arkansas, where she was awarded the Carolyn F. Walton Cole First Year Fellowship in Creative Writing, the James E. & Ellen Wadley Roper Fellowship in Creative Writing, and the James T. Whitehead Award for Fiction. 

She writes original fiction and translates fiction from Arabic and French. Her recent work appears in Hayden’s Ferry Review. Her work is particularly interested in relationships (romantic and platonic), work and workplaces, money, class & gender, and moments when individual agency makes contact with the narratives and power structures that seek to limit it.

Her work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, the King Fahd Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow.

As an educator, she believes in guiding students towards an individualized writing practice based on iteration and play. She has taught Composition I and II at the University of Arkansas and served as the Director of Arkansas Writers in the Schools, a program dedicated to bringing creative writing into classrooms around the state of Arkansas. In addition, she is a tutor at the Business Communication Lab at the Walton College of Business.

She is a graduate of the Dual BA Program between Columbia University and Sciences Po. At Sciences Po, she concentrated in Economics and at Columbia, she majored in Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies.