Kate Clark Stone is the author of The Last Sunday in May, forthcoming from Lake Union Press in spring 2026. Her fiction features strong and vulnerable heroines, a lot of heart, and endless love for flyover states.

Kate attended her first Indianapolis 500 at six years old and wrote her first book at eleven. A former attorney, Kate relishes watching fast cars, swimming and paddling sports, the Oxford comma, and traveling here/there/everywhere.   

Kate lives in southeastern Tennessee with her husband, children, and two very good dogs.

While Kate has lived in the South for decades, she is and will forever be a Hoosier at heart.