Kate Bucca, PhD, MFA, MEd, (she/they) is a queer mad/neurodivergent writer, artist, and educator. Kate is the author of a novel, Companion Plants, which Ryan Boudinot called “an audacious debut by a writer who more than delivers on her promises." Their short story, “Chlorine,” was selected by Kate Bernheimer for The Masters Review Anthology VIII. Her work has been a finalist for the Hillary Gravendyk Prize, semi-finalist for the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Competition, and short-listed for the Nervous Ghost Press Prize for Poetry.
Kate’s dissertation used the campus novel in conversation with Barad’s new materialism as a vehicle to critique the way writing workshop is enacted in low-residency MFA programs, with particular focus on the impacts of heteronormativity, neuronormativity, and socioeconomic class. While at the University of Prince Edward Island, Kate served as Editorial Assistant for Educational Fabulations: Teaching and Learning for a World Yet to Come and as a teaching assistant and sessional instructor for several graduate-level courses.
Kate has taught at the middle school, high school, and postsecondary levels, and currently works as a freelance writer and editor. When not writing or editing, they typically can be found painting, gardening, cooking, or doing the jars to put up the harvest. Kate lives in central Maine with the writer Dominic Bucca and two cats, Chaos and Complexity.