Kate with MojoAbout Kate

Kate Whouley (hoo’-lee, rhymes with truly) lives and writes on Cape Cod, in the home that inspired her to write Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved. A Book Sense Book-of-the-Year nominee, Cottage for Sale received kudos from reviewers and readers, and—nearly sixteen years after its original publication—remains popular with book groups.

Kate’s second memoir, Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words, was awarded the 2012 New England Book Award in nonfiction. One of only nineteen university press titles selected for a 2012 American Library Association Best of the Best citation, Remembering the Music is written with the same “good humor and thoughtful humanity” that author and Book-of-the-Month judge Anna Quindlen admired in Cottage for Sale.

“As a writer, I’m fascinated by human nature—by our limitless spirit and our inescapable mortality, our hopefulness and humor in the face of difficulty, even horror; by the myriad of ways that we feel, think, and interact; by how we live, love, and generally operate in the world.”

These fascinations play out in Kate’s writing, and in her work as a teacher and mentor. A founding faculty member in the Bay Path University MFA program, she was recognized with the Distinguished Teaching award in 2018. When she isn’t writing or teaching, her focus is on indie bookstore design. Recent installations include Still North Books & Bar in Hanover, NH, Print, in Portland ME, Belmont Books and Black Bear Café, in Belmont, MA and Gibson’s Bookstore and True Brew Café in Concord, NH.

Kate’s recent short work includes essays and features for Yankee magazine. Her writing has also appeared in Salon, Multiplicity MagazineObit, Shelf Awareness, Beyond the Margins, Beacon Broadside, The Boston Globe and The Cape Cod Times.

“No matter how far I roam,” Kate says about her multi-faceted career, “I always return to reading and writing. And yes, I am working on a new book.”