Kate Washington is an essayist and writer in Northern California and the dining critic for The Sacramento Bee. Her work includes creative nonfiction, essays, memoir, deeply researched longform pieces, and food writing and restaurant reviews including both pans and raves. In recent years, her work has appeared in Avidly; Bellingham Review; Brain, Child; Catapult; Dame; Eater; Hippocampus; McSweeney’s Internet Tendency; Ravishly; The Toast; Southwest: The Magazine; Sunset Magazine; Yoga Journal; The Washington Post; and more. (For a more complete portfolio, please visit the Writing page.) She has served as contributing writer at Sactown Magazine,  the local editor for the Zagat Survey's guide to Sacramento restaurants, and associate food editor at Sunset Magazine. She holds a Ph.D. in Victorian literature from Stanford University. 

Kate is currently at work on a book about caregiving that brings together feminist cultural critique and memoir, titled Already Toast.