Kate Fussner
Instructor
About Kate
Kate holds her B.A. from Vassar College, her M.Ed. from University of Massachusetts Boston, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing for Young People from Lesley University. She is the recipient of the W.K. Rose Fellowship from Vassar College (2022). After over a decade of teaching English for the Boston Public Schools, Kate now spends her life writing books, delighting her wonderful wife with homemade baked goods, and walking her dramatic dog, Weasley. Her debut middle grade novel The Song of Us was published by Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins in Summer 2023. A queer in-verse retelling of “Orpheus and Eurydice,” Fussner’s debut follows the story of two middle school girls learning to love each other and themselves as they fight not to lose one another. Kate is represented by Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary. Her writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, and elsewhere.
