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: a free press and democracy, exoplanets, 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

Many people run under a green banner at the start of a race

Sweet Child of Mine: One story of One Marathon

By Kate Blackwood | November 5, 2022

There is more to a marathon than the start and the finish. Something happens along the way. The shape of that happening is up to the runner.

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A small computer with running shoes nearby

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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