Kate E. Lore

Kate E. Lore is a creative writer of many modes, an artist, and a freelance creator. They’ve had a handful of short stories, comics, and nonfiction essays published in various literary magazines such as Black Warrior Review, Cleaver Magazine, Door is a Jar, Swamp Ape Review, Under the Gum Tree, Longridge Review, Bending Genres, and Oyster River Pages soon to include The Rumpus. Kate won an honorable mention with Switchgrass Review and first place in an undergrad college competition that granted attendance at the prestigious Antioch Writers Workshop. Kate was honored in 2015 to be a part of the Professor and Protégé reading alongside Lee Martin at The Ohio State University, a year later they were honored again with an opportunity to read some of their creative nonfiction work at Texas A&M University for their Bodies symposium of which they won first place in a creative nonfiction competition. Having lived in Ohio their entire life Kate earned a Bachelor's degree from The Ohio State University and an MFA in creative writing from Miami University. During their time in graduate school, they served as both the art and nonfiction editor for the literary magazine OxMag. Kate single-handedly judged the official creative writing contest for Sun-Yat Sen University in 2023 and with a partner judged the Golden Ox flash prose contest of Summer 2023. Openly queer, Kate is also neurodivergent having been diagnosed with autism, and ADHD. Born to a single widowed mother and raised in a low-income household Kate is the youngest of four, the second to graduate high school, first bachelor's degree, and the first MFA in the family. Kate E. Lore wrote for the Dayton City Paper as a freelance columnist for two year period, and has done various other visual and informative writing on a project-by-project basis. A jack-of-all-trades Kate splits their time between fiction and nonfiction, screenplays, flash prose, full-length novels, painting, and comics.