Kate is a freelance writer, communicator, and podcast/radio producer with more than two decades of experience. Her specialties include urbanism, culture, social science, history, parenting, and the quirkiest corners of the most mundane phenomena. Kate wrote American Afterlife (University of Georgia Press, 2014), a book about why we do what we do when it comes to death and dying in this country, which won a Georgia Author of the Year Award in 2015. Her writing has appeared in Full Grown People, Oxford American, Atlanta magazine, Utne Reader, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution among other outlets.

Kate produced the first season of Buried Truths for 90.1 WABE, which won a Peabody Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Award. She was a reporter, producer, and host at 90.1 WABE, Atlanta's NPR station, for more than a decade, and her radio stories have appeared on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, and The World. She also created and hosted four seasons of What's Next ATL, a podcast from the Atlanta Regional Commission about the challenges facing metro Atlanta.

Her other projects have included Tantrum, a podcast and live literary event for parents, and True Story!, which was one of Atlanta’s first dedicated nonfiction reading series, attracting authors from around the country. She has taught creative writing and English at Hub City Writers Conference, Emory Continuing Education, Clayton State University, the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and a number of independent intimate writing workshops through the True Story! reading series.

Speaking Engagements (not complete)

Creative Mornings, Atlanta GA
”How We Remember” Symposium at American Folk Art Museum, NYC
Good Gracious Southern Variety Show
AWP Conference
Marietta Museum of History
Georgia Literary Festival
The Letters Festival
Decatur Book Festival
Decorative Arts and Preservation Forum
St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN
Columbia College of Missouri
Georgia Perimeter College
Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
Furman University
University of Pittsburgh
South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities
University of North Carolina-Wilmington
University of West Georgia