Kate Christensen

Kate Christensen is the author of eight novels, most recently Welcome Home, Stranger. Her fourth novel, The Great Man, won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She has also published two food-centric memoirs, Blue Plate Special and How to Cook a Moose, which won the 2016 Maine Literary Award for Memoir. Her essays, food writing, reviews, and stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications and anthologies. She currently writes a monthly food column for Frenchly.us called Bouffe. She lives with her husband and their two dogs in Taos, New Mexico.