Kate McGovern is a writer by trade and an anthropologist (of sorts) by training.
She has written about education, politics, relationships, race, science, health—and cab drivers, parents, adolescents, homeless women and others. Random House named Kate one of the Best New Voices of 2006, and on stage, her work has been produced Off and Off-Off Broadway. She has also written both fiction and non-fiction for the educational market, and has taught theatre, literacy and creative writing to young people in Boston, New York and London.
Kate grew up in Cambridge, MA, and holds a BA in American studies from Yale. From 2008-2009, she was a recipient of the Weidenfeld Scholarship at Oxford, where she received a master’s degree in social anthropology.