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: colliding black holes, new poems, extreme astronomy, and sniffing out new friends.

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

Speakeasy Hockey

By Kate Blackwood | February 21, 2021

Christian Klueg’s back door opens directly onto ice smooth enough to reflect his house and his coiled garden hose.

Read of the Week: Accidents and Trails

By Kate Blackwood | February 11, 2021

Do you keep hiking, or do you fly home?

All of life in one day; all lives in one novel?

By Kate Blackwood | February 7, 2021

“Woolf was among the first writers to understand that there are no insignificant lives, only inadequate ways of looking at them.”

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