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Kat Tang

Biography

Kat Tang

Kat Tang is a graduate of Columbia’s MFA program, where she taught as an Undergraduate Writing Fellow. Born in China, relocated to Japan and raised in California, she is fascinated by how we make and fake human connection in a technologically evolving world. Her short stories and graphic narratives have appeared in Electric Literature, The Margins, Pigeon Pages and elsewhere. She currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Kat Tang

Books by Kat Tang

Five-Star Stranger
by Kat Tang - Fiction

In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, FIVE-STAR STRANGER follows the adventures of a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app --- a place where users can hire a pretend fiancé, a wingman or an extra mourner for a funeral. Referred to only as Stranger, the narrator navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients. But when a nosy patron threatens to upend his long-term role as father to a young girl, Stranger begins to reckon with his attachment to his pretend daughter, her mother and his own fraught past. Now, he must confront the boundaries he has drawn and explore the legacy of abandonment that shaped his life.