AKA @katerwriter, Kate promises to dance always with absurdity and paradox. She began her literary career writing bad poetry at age ten in Des Moines, Iowa. After working as a grocery clerk, nursing assistant and home health aide, city bus driver, museum aide, a variety of office assistant positions, and K-12 substitute teacher, all while studying (BA 1999, MA 2010) and raising a family, scribbling looked like a suitable diversion. Now she daydreams and whacks words amidst the iconic Saguaro and Organ Pipe cacti in the mystical Sonoran Desert.
Kate's stories, essays, and poetry appear in international anthologies and journals, and she also muses upon sundry digressions on the writing life at www.wordwhackingdreams.blogspot.com