Kat Rosenfield
Kat Rosenfield | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kathryn Rosenfield March 16, 1982 |
| Alma mater | Drew University (BA) |
| Occupations | Culture writer, columnist, novelist |
| Years active | 2004– |
| Notable work | Full list |
| Website | katrosenfield |
Kathryn Rosenfield (born March 16, 1982)[1][2] is an American culture writer, columnist, and novelist.
Early life and education
Rosenfield was born and raised in Coxsackie, New York.[3] She graduated from Coxsackie High School in 1999 and Drew University in 2003.[4][5][6]
Career
Beginning in 2004, Rosenfield worked in various communications jobs, including a publicist for Penguin Books, copywriter for the Brooklyn Public Library, and freelance writer for various magazines, newspapers, and corporate clients including New York magazine, The Boston Globe, Vulture, Wired, AirMail, and The New York Times.[7][6][5] From 2010 to 2016, Rosenfield was a reporter for MTV News.[8][5][9]
Rosenfield writes for Reason,[10] UnHerd,[11] and The Free Press.[12] As a journalist, she has covered a number of controversies in book publishing, including sensitivity readers,[13] the #ownvoices movement,[14] and social media backlash to the young adult fiction novel The Black Witch.[15] She is also a cohost with Phoebe Maltz Bovy of the podcast Feminine Chaos.[16]
Rosenfield is a New York Times best selling author of adult and young adult thrillers.[17] In 2019, her book A Trick of Light was released, which she co-wrote with comic book writer Stan Lee.[9] In 2022, her book No One Will Miss Her (2021) was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel.[18]
Personal life
Rosenfield married on September 6, 2008,[19][20] and lives in Norwalk, Connecticut.[21]
Books
- How to Survive in the Woods (HarperCollins, 2026)[22]
- You Must Remember This (William Morrow, 2023)[23]
- No One Will Miss Her (William Morrow, 2021; nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel)[24]
- A Trick of Light (Mariner Books, 2019)[25]
- Inland (Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2014)[26]
- Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone (Speak, 2012)[27][28]
References
- ^ "Kat Rosenfield". Twitter. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
Born March 16
- ^ Rosenfield, Kat [@katrosenfield] (January 31, 2022). "6 weeks!" (Tweet). Retrieved March 24, 2023 – via Twitter. This tweet replied to a question: "Is your 40th birthday soon?"
- ^ "Kat Rosenfield". freshfiction.com. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
- ^ Applegate, Julie (February 2, 2022). "Congratulations Kat Rosenfield!". Coxsackie-Athens Central School District. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Kat Rosenfield". LinkedIn. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ a b "Kat Rosenfield". Bookmate. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ "Biography Kat Rosenfield". bookreporter.com. The Book Report, Inc. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
- ^ "Kat Rosenfield | See all their articles from across New York Magazine". vulture.com. Vulture. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
- ^ a b Turchiano, Danielle (March 15, 2018). "Kat Rosenfield to Co-Write Audible Stan Lee Project". Variety. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- ^ "Kat Rosenfield". Reason.com. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
- ^ "Kat Rosenfield". UnHerd. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
- ^ Rosenfield, Kat. "Say It with Me Now: Open Marriages Never Work". thefp.com. The Free Press. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
- ^ Rosenfield, Kat (August–September 2022). "Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers". Reason. Archived from the original on February 8, 2024. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
- ^ Rosenfield, Kat (April 9, 2019). "What Is #OwnVoices Doing To Our Books?". Refinery29. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Rosenfield, Kat (August 7, 2017). "The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter". Vulture. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
- ^ "Feminine Chaos". podcasts.apple.com. Apple Inc. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
- ^ "Kat Rosenfield". panmacmillan.co. Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
Kat Rosenfield is a New York Times bestselling author of adult and YA thrillers.
- ^ "MWA Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Nominations". Mystery Writers of America. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- ^ "Kat Rosenfield Culture writer, novelist, and podcaster. On Twitter at @katrosenfield. X katrosenfield". thefp.com. The Free Press. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
- ^ Rosenfield, Kat (September 6, 2024). "Kat Rosenfield X katrosenfield". x.com. X. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
16 years ago today! my marriage is now old enough to drive ❤️
- ^ "In her new novel 'No One Will Miss Her,' Norwalk's Kat Rosenfield delivers a tantalizing psychological mystery". Connecticut Magazine. September 24, 2021. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- ^ "How to Survive in the Woods". harpercollins.com. HarperCollins. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
- ^ Reviews for You Must Remember This:
- Mangu-Ward, Katherine (2023-03-24). "Review: 'You Must Remember This' Grapples With the Dangers of Nostalgia". Reason. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
- ^ Reviews for No One Will Miss Her:
- Gendell, Yfat Reiss (July 15, 2021). "Mystery/Thriller Reviews: No One Will Miss Her". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- Gribbon, James (October 5, 2021). "Norwalk author delivers a tantalizing mystery in 'No One Will Miss Her'". The Hour. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- Lipez, Richard (2021-10-07). "5 New Thrillers, Mysteries to Read This Fall". The Franklin Favorite. pp. B6. Retrieved 2022-04-29 – via Newspapers.com.
- Beram, Nell (December 26, 2021). "Book review: Kat Rosenfield's thriller is blistering, its takedown of snobbery bravura". Portland Press Herald. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- Gregory, Vicki (December 2021). "Mystery: No One Will Miss Her". Library Journal. Vol. 146, no. 12. ProQuest 2615909382. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- ^ Reviews for A Trick of Light:
- Kirtley, David Barr (October 19, 2019). "Stan Lee's 'A Trick of Light' Explores the Dark Side of the Internet". Wired. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- "Stan Lee y la generación de superhéroes que dejó en su novela póstuma" [Stan Lee and the generation of superheroes he left behind in his posthumous novel]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). November 7, 2019. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- ^ "Book Reviews: Inland". Kirkus Reviews. May 12, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- ^ Burns, Elizabeth (August 10, 2012). "Review: Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone". School Library Journal. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- ^ "Book Reviews: Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone". Kirkus Reviews. May 30, 2012. Retrieved April 29, 2022.