Kate Shakespeare is an American writer based on the West Coast.

In college, she introduced herself to a professor who looked at her very gravely, then said, “That’s quite the name to live up to.”

After a lifetime of idle compliments and questions about her lineage, this reaction very much threw her.

Nevertheless, Kate has had a lifelong passion for writing, and hopes to someday live up to that last name. When she isn’t writing poetry and fiction for fun, she is writing technical documents for work.