Kate grew up in Houston, Texas, making up stories and illustrating them whenever she could. She studied architecture at Yale and Norwegian boat building through the Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Fellowship, after which she made her way out to Los Angeles to begin a career in animation. She worked as a visual development artist at Dreamworks TV for projects including Croods: Family Tree, Abominable and the Invisible City, and Madagascar: A Little Wild. She is currently working as a location designer for the upcoming Big City Greens Movie at Disney TV. 

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Kate is the co-author and illustrator of the middle grade series Maple's Theory of Fun, forthcoming from Aladdin books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster. She is also the author/illustrator of the nonfiction picture book Sustainable Structures from Holiday House Inc.

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In her free time, she enjoys building furniture, biking around LA, and drawing wobbly buildings that look like they might fall down. She is repped by Azantian Literary.