Kate Robinson began her literary career writing bad poetry in Des Moines, Iowa at age ten. After working as a grocery clerk, nursing assistant and home health aide, a variety of clerical and secretarial positions, city bus driver, museum aide, and substitute teacher, all while attending college and raising a family, fiddling with the fine art of writing and editing looked like a suitable diversion. Kate received a BA from Prescott College in 1999 and amuses herself when not writing with freelance editing, studying Tibetan Buddhism, bicycling, hiking, and of course, volunteering for the Professional Writers of Prescott as webmaster and butting heads with computers.

Until recently, she lived in a juniper forest on a star-studded ridge in Chino Valley, Arizona with her two teenagers and a fat Buddha cat. But the US economy drove her to seek an MA in Creative Writing, and now she lives high on a ridge facing Cardigan Bay with her family, sadly catless, in Aberytswyth, Ceredigion County, Wales, and attends the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Kate is the author of two middle-grade reference texts, THE NATIONAL MALL and LEWIS AND CLARK (Enslow Publishing, 2005 & 2010), as well as short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry featured in a variety of venues: Literary Mama, Absolute Write, Kaleidoscope, Sandcutters, and June Cotner's acclaimed prayer and poetry anthologies, among others. A recent story, "The Upstairs Room", appears in the slipstream sci-fi anthology Subtle Edens (by London's award-winning Elastic Press, 2008) and another, "Off-key", won Kate's second New Short Fiction award in November 2008 on the Jerry Jazz Musician website.