Kate McKean is a literary agent at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her MA in fiction writing at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, Catapult, and elsewhere. She is the author of Write Through It: An Insider’s Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life (Simon Element, 2025) and PAY ATTENTION TO ME (Sourcebooks, 2026). She writes the Agents & Books newsletter, found on Substack.
