Kate Harding

Kate Harding is co-editor of Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America, and author of Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do About It. Along with her Nasty Women co-editor Samhita Mukhopadhyay, she hosts the podcast Feminasty. Previously, she collaborated with Anna Holmes, Amanda Hess, and a cast of thousands on The Book of Jezebel, and with Marianne Kirby on Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere. You might also remember her as the founding editor of Shapely Prose (2007-2010). Kate's essays have appeared in the anthologies Madonna & Me, Yes Means Yes, Feed Me, and Airmail: Women of Letters. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a B.A. in English from University of Toronto, and is currently at work on a Ph.D. in creative writing from Bath Spa University [Photo by Jonathan Conklin]