Selected writing
Nonfiction
The Resilience of Snowflakes
Published in TIME Magazine (Sept. 16, 2019 issue)
Available on TIME.com as “What I’ve Learned from Teaching ‘The Snowflake Generation’ about Trauma”
What I Teach: Seven Titles from a High School Class on Trauma Literature
Published in LitHub (August 6, 2019)
‘Game of thrones’ is full of heroines. but is the series actually feminist?
Published in The Lily / Washington Post (May 2, 2019)
If I Don’t Answer
Published in American Literary Review (Spring 2020)
Winner of the 2019 American Literary Review Essay Prize
Short Stories
Helen in Texarkana
Published in Memorious (Issue 30)
Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2020
The Translator’s Daughter
Published in Black Warrior Review (Issue 42.2)
Finalist for the BWR 2015 Fiction Contest
Finalist for the 2015 Robert and Adele Schiff Award
Poetry
Novel
Two Harbors
Published by Harcourt under the name Kate Benson (2005)
“At once cinematic and particular, Benson’s novel of duplicity and mystery … expresses the longing for a safe harbor that all of us experience.” — Washington Post
“Haunting, lush, and lyrical…. Weaving a sensitive psychological portrait with a powerful tale of pursuit, Benson writes with a poetic voice as passionate as it is precise.” — Booklist
“This is the deepest, purest first novel of the year.” — Edmund White, author of A Boy’s Own Story