“I love books. I love everything about them. I love the way you can fall into anotherworld while you’re reading, the way books can help you forget hard things in life, orhelp you deal with them.” So states Isabelle “Izzy” Torres, editor, book aficionado, andprotagonist of By the Book, Jasmine Guillory’s feisty reimagining of Beauty and theBeast. A prolific novelist, Guillory has always sought solace […]
The 22nd issue of the Santa Fe Literary Review is on shelves now! Collect your complimentary copies on the SFCC campus and at all three Santa Fe Public Library Branches. You can also read the new issue online. The new issue includes poetry, prose, and visual art from around the world, plus an exclusive interview with New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory, whose tenth […]
Friends, the time has come. I am thrilled and terrified to announce that I have a new book coming out early next year! It’s called Room of Wonders, and it’s all about home birth: a collection of stories, expert interviews, and profiles exploring what it actually means to deliver your baby at home. I gave birth to my three kids here in our house, the […]
The City Different’s beloved weekly, the Santa Fe Reporter, called on politicians, artists, teachers, entrepreneurs—and Kate!—to reflect on what’s in store for 2026. Santa Feans weighed in from all corners of the county, imagining the new year’s potential and kissing 2025 good-bye. Kate wrote: “As a teacher, I hope my students always feel empowered to let their gorgeous, unique voices shine through, spelling mistakes and […]
This year’s Poet Laureate is Santa Fean Arthur Sze! For the Santa Fe New Mexican, Sze shares, “My excitement about poetry is that kind of intensity and confluence of emotion, imagination, and working with language; they all come together with compression and musicality in a poem. My hope is that in 15 or 20 lines, a really good poem can feel like it’s got the […]
The 20th issue of the SANTA FE LITERARY REVIEW was released this month to much fanfare. Over the decades, the REVIEW has published new voices from around the globe alongside writing, art, and interviews from some of the most notable literary names today. The 20th issue features an interview with Deborah Jackson Taffa, author of WHISKEY TENDER: A MEMOIR. “The best advice I have […]
Kate’s essay, “Skinning Up,” was reprinted in the February issue of ADIRONDACK LIFE, “the magazine of the mountains since 1969.” This is the “How to Winter” issue—and navigating a frozen Whiteface is about as wintery as it comes! Read more here.
Kate’s letter to the editor (“The Fever Called Living”) was published in this month’s issue of Harper’s Magazine, the oldest literary-interest monthly in the United States. Forever immortalized in the Harper’s Archive – and in the 175th Commemorative Issue. A proud day for any writer.
Kate’s Op-Ed, “Airport noise is growing — and residents have few protections,” was published in today’s issue of the Santa Fe New Mexican. Read more here!
Kate’s Op-Ed, “City growth is coming at county’s expense,” appears in today’s issue of the Santa Fe New Mexican, the West’s oldest newspaper. Read on, here.
This year’s issue of the Santa Fe Literary Review is now available online and at the Santa Fe Public Libraries—while supplies last. You can also grab your copy at the SFCC Library on campus at 6401 Richards Ave. This year’s gorgeous issue features a collage-style cover by City Different artist Pi Luna, plus original content by Michael Mark, Tjizembua Tjikuzu, Amy Lowe, Susan Griego, and […]
Listen to an excerpt of WHAT THE DEAD CAN SAY, a mysterious novel without a listed author or press. Honored to be a part of this gorgeous project!
To celebrate 50 years of the SANTA FE REPORTER, Editor-in-Chief Julia Goldberg worked with staff writers to collect fifty-word visions of the City Different – fifty years from now, in 2074. Kate contributed fifty words alongside high-profile leaders from all around New Mexico. “Kill your iPhone” is so 2030s, and Santa Fe loves old-fashioned things: hand-churned ice cream, writing letters, neighborhood picnics, reading out loud. […]
The SANTA FE REPORTER’s Mo Charnot covered faculty salaries at SFCC in an article released on June 12, 2024. Kate McCahill reflected throughout the article on the struggles faculty encounter in the face of comparatively low salaries and an ever-increasing cost of living in the City Different. “McCahill has two children,” Charnot writes, and “says her ‘outlook on my role changed drastically when I had […]
This year’s issue, themed “Myth: Invention, Legend, and Lore,” showcases writing and art from around the world—all of it somehow evoking the mythical. Kate McCahill, the magazine’s editor in chief, writes of the selection process: “Myths took on every shape imaginable, and our editorial team pored over each one, searching for the interpretations of legend and lore to fill the pages that you, reader, now […]