Fekete is granddaughter to Mexican and Hungarian immigrants, a native of the southern West Virginia coalfields. She is author of the novel of the WV coal mine wars, Waters Run Wild (Sweetgum Press, 2010) with re-release from Guest Room Press in October 2018.

Her fiction and poetry often appear in journals such as Chiron Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Kentucky Review, Montucky Review, Adirondack Review, ABZ, and in such anthologies as Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia. (WVU Press, 2017)

She earned her MA from Marshall University and MFA in Creative Writing from WV Wesleyan. She co-edited Feminine Rising: Voices of Power & Invisibility (Cynren Press April 2019) which won the Silver for Foreword Book of the Year in women’s studies.