Kieran Mundy is a writer from New England. 
 
Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Passages North, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, The Massachusetts Review, Joyland, and elsewhere and has been recognized in Wigleaf's Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2017 and 2019. She is a 2022 Best of the Net nominee and the recipient of Gulf Coast's 2020 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, judged by Jenny Offill.
 
Kieran holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Oregon and has received funding and support for her work from Tin House, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center and Craigardan. She is a 2024 Oregon Literary Arts Fellow.

She lives in Bend, OR, and is working on a linked story collection and a novel. She writes about the intersections of chronic illness, wellness culture, climate change, and capitalism.