Kate Bucca, PhD, MFA, MEd, (they/she) is a queer neurodivergent writer, visual 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. Their 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 works as the Education Director/Executive Director at Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre. They taught middle school, high school, and graduate students before opening an independent bookstore—Bucca dell’Acqua—in St. Andrews-by-the-Sea. Kate lives in New Brunswick with the writer Dominic Bucca and a sweet, fierce calico called Complexity.