Writer of facts and fiction

I write novels and stories inspired by sets of facts and bodies of knowledge. I'm a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and my writing appears in Iron Horse, Stone Canoe, Sport Literate, and elsewhere. Find my review of Best Microfiction 2021 at Trampset. I'm at work on a novel composed of short stories, all connected by water.

As a writer for Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, I report on faculty research in a wide range of subjects. Recent favorites include articles on: baby talk, extreme astronomy, and a submarine robot named Icefin.

Send me a thought, a link, or a poem. I love to connect with people in the writing community. And fellow runners and theater geeks, too.

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Recent Blog Posts

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How running a marathon is going to help me publish a novel

By Kate Blackwood | October 9, 2022

What can I learn from this specific, athletic, amateur activity and apply it to the messy, years-long process of crafting a piece of literature?

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Five irreplaceable, unduplicatable things I love about Ithaca

By Kate Blackwood | August 18, 2022

You won’t find these unmistakable landmarks anywhere else. And I miss them.

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News of the vast and the minuscule

By Kate Blackwood | July 17, 2022

Two machines fired up this month to help us see into the extremes of being – the cosmically large and the incredibly tiny. Witnessing both searches, I’m catching on to the importance of seeking out where we came from and what we’re made of.

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