Kate Christensen

{{Short description|American novelist}}

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| nationality = American

| education = {{Unbulleted list|Reed College | Iowa Writers' Workshop}}

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Kate Christensen (born August 22, 1962) is an American novelist. She won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her fourth novel, The Great Man, about a painter and the three women in his life.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/mar/14/news.awardsandprizes|title=Former 'chick lit' author wins PEN/Faulkner award|last=Irvine|first=Lindesay|date=2008-03-14|website=The Guardian|access-date=2018-07-03}} Her tenth and eleventh novels are forthcoming: The Sacred & the Divine (with Melissa Henderson) from Hyperion in 2025; Good Company from HarperCollins in 2026. She is also the author of two food-related memoirs, Blue Plate Special (Doubleday, 2013) and How to Cook a Moose (Islandport Press, 2015), the latter of which won the 2016 Maine Literary Award for memoir.{{Cite news |url=https://bangordailynews.com/bdn-maine/community/maine-writers-talk-about-series-returns-to-the-belfast-free-library-2/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704034531/https://bangordailynews.com/bdn-maine/community/maine-writers-talk-about-series-returns-to-the-belfast-free-library-2/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 4, 2018 |title=Maine Writers Talk About…series returns to the Belfast Free Library|work=Bangor Daily News|access-date=2018-07-03}}

She is a graduate of Reed College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her essays, articles, reviews, and stories have appeared in many anthologies and periodicals.