kathryn m barber

Kate Barber is a writer who grew up in the mountains that run along the state line of Tennessee and Virginia.

STORIES

Kate’s stories and essays have appeared in Grist, The Masters Review, The Pinch, Blue Earth Review, Moon City Review and elsewhere. Her short story “Sorry About Your Bird” was featured in the New Voices section of The Masters Review and was a finalist and honorable mention in the James Hurst Prize for Fiction (2019) judged by Stephanie Powell Watts. Her most recent story appeared in issue 17 of Grist magazine.

LITERARY MAGAZINES & PUBLISHING

A lover of literary journals, she has held various positions at Ecotone magazine, the award-winning literary journal published out of the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Creative Writing Department, including Contributing Editor, Associate Editor, and Nonfiction Editor. Over the years, she’s read and edited for Southern Humanities Review, Press Pause Press, Jabberwock Review, and Blinders journal. During her internship at Lookout Books, she served as the lead of the editorial team for the collection of essays Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism.

Currently, she is the Senior Editor and Marketing Assistant for Encore magazine, assisting in content curation, content editing, marketing, and event planning.

LITERATURE & ACADEMIA

Kate holds her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and her MA in Literature from Mississippi State University. She completed her BA in English Literature at Carson-Newman University, with an emphasis in British Literature, focusing on Renaissance literature and Shakespeare. Independently, she continues to study Renaissance literature and history, sometimes dipping back into the late Medieval period, concentrating in particular on England from the reigns of Edward IV through James I. She’s especially interested in the roles and lives of women from the late middle ages through the Renaissance. Much of her current reading list is comprised of Anne Boleyn, Katherine of Aragon, and their daughters, Elizabeth I and Mary I respectively.