Kat Davis has an MFA in fiction from Washington University in Saint Louis and currently resides in the Boston area. Her fiction has been published in Wigleaf, Juked, Cosmonauts Avenue, New Orleans Review, and Monkeybicycle. Her work has also appeared on the longlist for Wigleaf’s Top 50, and her essays and literary criticism have been featured in the Chicago Review of Books and on the Ploughshares blog. Kat’s most recent piece of flash fiction, “The Babysitter,” was selected as a finalist for the Mythic Picnic Prize for Fiction and appears in The Best Small Fictions 2022.
“In a Dark Mirror is a riveting, unsettling thriller that sticks to your bones. There are hints of Megan Abbott in the way Davis writes the lush, obsessive beats of girlhood, but this story has a rhythm and a twist all its own. I couldn’t put it down.” —Jess Lourey, Edgar-nominated author of The Taken Ones “At once terrifying and thought-provoking, In a Dark Mirror is a haunting exploration into the tight clutch of childhood friendship. Even more frightening than the violence itself is the blurred line between what is real and what is imagined, and the dark power of a secret shared between friends. Pitch-black, multilayered, and deeply unsettling…prepare to read this with an almost fevered need to find out how it ends.” —Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here