About Kate
Born in Winston-Salem, NC, Kate Blackwell graduated from Wellesley College and earned an MA in English literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She worked as a reporter at the Raleigh News & Observer and editorial writer for the Greensboro Daily News, then moved to Washington, DC, where she was a free-lance writer and editor and co-authored several nonfiction books before turning full-time to fiction.
Her stories have been published in numerous literary journals. She has taught fiction writing in the Washington area for fourteen years, at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD, and other venues. In addition to stories, she has published book reviews and travel articles.
Kate has been a fellow at the MacDowell Writers’ Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.