Welcome to the website of writer, Kate Kasten.

BOOKS

THE DE-CONVERSION OF KIT LAMB, TEN SMALL BEDS, BETTER DAYS, TOO HAPPY, FOREIGN GROUND, and WILDWOOD: FAIRY TALES AND FABLES RE-IMAGINED can be purchased from amazon as a trade paperback or as a download to Kindle. They can also be purchased at Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque Street, Iowa City, Iowa and are available at the Iowa City, Coralville, and North Liberty public libraries.  (The De-conversion of Kit Lamb and Better Days are also available at the University of Iowa Main Library.)

SHORT STORIES

Kate's short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Northwest Review, American Literary Review, The Madison Review, and the fiction anthologies Side Show and Paraspheres.

MUSICAL THEATRE

With playwright Sandra de Helen Kasten co-wrote THE CLUE IN THE OLD BIRDBATH a musical theatre spoof of the Nancy Drew mystery series. The play enjoyed long runs at Chicago's Stage Left theatre and Body Politic theatre, and has been produced around the country, notably at Portland Women's Theatre, and At the Foot of the Mountain theatre in Minneapolis.

ONE-ACT PLAY

Kate's one-woman, one-act play CHINESE PUZZLE was selected  by the Pittsburgh New Works Festival to be produced on 8/27/17. It is a humorous monologue in which a woman recounts her confrontation with an obstreperous down coat and disapproving Mennonite volunteers at her favorite second hand clothing store.

YOUTUBE MONOLOGUES: boomeronachair

From her pretty comfortable chair, Kate muses on the shelf life of 60-year-old tattoos, the murkiness of the expression “at first blush,” the perceptible speech of a trash can lid, the impending fate of climate change deniers (along with the rest of us), Donald Trump (so much to say about him, so little time), and other matters of pressing concern. https://www.youtube.com/user/boomeronachair

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Right click on the links to read reviews of Kate's fiction:

BETTER DAYS

WILDWOOD: FAIRY TALES AND FABLES RE-IMAGINED

TEN SMALL BEDS

THE DE-CONVERSION OF KIT LAMB

TOO HAPPY

FOREIGN GROUND

Past readings and events:

July, 2018: Prairie Lights Books, reading from Foreign Ground.

September, 2017: University of Iowa ESL Book Group discussion of Too Happy.

July 2017: Prairie Lights Books, reading from Too Happy.

April 2014: 2nd Annual Small Press and Self Published Authors' Event at Coralville Public Library, Coralville Iowa. Kate and other authors read briefly from their works, participated in a panel discussion and sold books. A film of this reading was made by Coralvision and is available on Youtube (Kate's reading from her novel Better Days begins at 13:30 and ends at 22:05); here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bB8Z8Gm4S8

March 2014 Prairie Lights Books, reading from Better Days and Wildwood: fairy tales and fables re-imagined. To hear this reading, click on the link below:

http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/vwu/id/3486/rec/3

November 2013: Press Coffee  Co., Coralville, IA Wildwood: Fairy tales and fables re-imagined 

July, 2013: First Christian Church (Iowa City) Book Club The De-Conversion of Kit Lamb

May 2013: Iowa City University Club Book Club The De-Conversion of Kit Lamb

March, 2013: Iowa City Unitarian  Universalist Book Club Ten Small Beds

February, 2013: St. Paul Minn. Book Club Ten Small Beds

June, 2012: Grinnell College, Authors' Panel

April, 2012: St. Paul Minn. Book Club The De-Conversion of Kit Lamb

March 1st, 2012:  Prairie LIghts Books, reading from Ten Small Beds, Iowa City, Iowa. To hear this reading, click on the link below:

http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/

September, 2011: Iowa City Unitarian Universalist Book Club The De-Conversion of Kit Lamb

July 17, 2011: Iowa City Book Festival, reading from the De-Conversion of Kit Lamb

April 20th, 2011: Prairie Lights Books, reading from The De-Conversion of Kit Lamb, Iowa City, Iowa. To hear this reading, click on the link below:

http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/

To contact the author:

kekasten@gmail.com

To hear all of Kate's readings at Prairie Lights Books, click on The Writing University.