Kate Christensen is an American novelist. She won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her fourth novel, The Great Man, about a painter and the three women in his life. Her eleventh novel, Good Company, is forthcoming from HarperCollins in June 2026. She is also the author of two food-related memoirs, Blue Plate Special (Doubleday, 2013) and How to Cook a Moose (Islandport Press, 2015), the latter of which won the 2016 Maine Literary Award for memoir.
She is a graduate of Reed College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her essays, articles, reviews, and stories have appeared in many anthologies and periodicals.
Works Fiction In the Drink, Doubleday, 1999, Jeremy Thrane, Broadway, 2001, The Epicure's Lament, Doubleday, 2004, The Great Man, Doubleday, 2007, Trouble, Doubleday, 2009, The Astral, Doubleday, 2011, The Last Cruise, Doubleday, 2018, Welcome Home, Stranger, 2023 The Arizona Triangle (as Sydney Graves), 2024 The Sacred & the Divine, 2025 Good Company, 2026 Saguaro City (as Sydney Graves), TBA
Non-fiction Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites, Doubleday, 2013, How to Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir, Islandport Press, 2015,
References
Further reading Robert Smith, "The Art of the Novel", Reed Magazine, Spring 2008: 14–15. Blue Plate Special': A Generous Helping of Life". Interview with Dave Davies on NPR, July 10, 2013
External links Official website Random House bio