Kate is a novelist, playwright, and songwriter. Her debut YA novel Fans of the Impossible Life was a Fall 2015 Indie Next pick, a Junior Library Guild pick, a 2016 Rainbow List Top Ten Pick, and has been published in ten languages. She is also the author of the YA novel Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches and the nonfiction self-care guide Luminary. A recipient of a Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation grant for playwriting, Kate has worked for many years with New York experimental theater company Elevator Repair Service, including a decade spent performing in “Gatz,” their eight-hour-long version of “The Great Gatsby.” Her play "Everyone's Fine With Virginia Woolf" was produced in NYC and Dublin in 2018 and has been published by Dramatists Play Service. Kate also writes songs and performs with her band The Witch Ones (find their debut eponymous album wherever you listen to music.) In 2024 her collaboration with composer Robert M. Johanson, the experimental pop opera HILMA, about the artist Hilma af Klint, was produced at the Tony Award-winning Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. Kate currently lives in upstate New York with her wife and daughter in an only slightly haunted house.