Kate Washington is an essayist and writer in Northern California and the dining critic for The Sacramento Bee. She writes a cooking advice column, The Kitchen Witch, for Edible Communities. 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 at work on her first book, which expands on well-received recent essays about caregiving for her husband through a devastating stem-cell transplant. Both timely memoir and feminist cultural critique, the book explores the vital unpaid labor done by family caregivers and advocates for this often-invisible but growing group. She is represented by Beth Vesel of Beth Vesel Literary Agency, and her book in progress is under contract with Beacon Press.

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