Kate Christensen is the author of eight novels, including the upcoming, Welcome Home, Stranger (HarperCollins, Dec 2023); The Great Man, which won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction; and The Last Cruise, published in paperback from Vintage Anchor in June 2019; and two food-centric memoirs, Blue Plate Special and How to Cook a Moose, which won the 2016 Maine Literary Award for Memoir. She has taught numerous workshops in both memoir and fiction, and her essays, articles, reviews, and stories have appeared in many anthologies and periodicals.