Kate lives in Atlanta where she works radio producer and freelance writer. She is seeking a publisher for her nonfiction book, American Afterlife. Her radio stories appear regularly on Atlanta's NPR station WABE 90.1 FM, and her writing has appeared twice in Oxford American magazine as well as Atlanta magazine and New South.

In 2009 Kate earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. While there, she wrote obsessively about America's fascinating death customs. The resulting MFA thesis won nearly every major award given by the Creative Writing program including the 2007-2008 Robert H. Byington Leadership Scholarship in Creative Writing, the 2008-2009 Lavonne Adams Award, and the 2008-2009 Outstanding Thesis Award for Nonfiction.

She is co-founder of Atlanta's popular bimonthly non-fiction reading series, "True Story!"