Kate Christensen


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 and How to Cook a Moose, 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, 2024
  • The Sacred & the Divine, 2025
  • Good Company, 2026
  • Saguaro City, TBA

    Non-fiction

  • Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites, Doubleday, 2013,
  • How to Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir, Islandport Press, 2015,