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Kathryn Rosenfield (born March 16, 1982) [1] [2] is an American culture writer, columnist and novelist.

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Beginning in 2004, Rosenfield worked in various communications jobs, including a publicist for Penguin Books, copywriter for the Brooklyn Public Library, and freelance writer for various magazines and corporate clients. [3] [4] From 2010 to 2016, Rosenfield was a reporter for MTV News. [4] [5]

Rosenfield writes for Reason and UnHerd . [6] [7] As a journalist, she has covered a number of controversies in book publishing, including sensitivity readers, [8] the #ownvoices movement, [9] and social media backlash to the young adult fiction novel The Black Witch . [10]

In 2019, Rosenfield's book A Trick of Light was released, which she co-wrote with comic book writer Stan Lee. [5] In 2022, her book No One Will Miss Her (2021) was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. [11]

Rosenfield graduated from Coxsackie High School in 1999 and Drew University in 2003. [12] [4] [3] She now lives in Norwalk, Connecticut. [13]

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  1. ↑ "Kat Rosenfield". Twitter. Retrieved March 24, 2023. Born March 16
  2. ↑ Rosenfield, Kat [@katrosenfield] (January 31, 2022). "6 weeks!" (Tweet). Retrieved March 24, 2023– via Twitter. This tweet replied to a question: "Is your 40th birthday soon?"
  3. 1 2 "Kat Rosenfield". Bookmate. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 "Kat Rosenfield". LinkedIn. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  5. 1 2 Turchiano, Danielle (March 15, 2018). "Kat Rosenfield to Co-Write Audible Stan Lee Project". Variety . Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  6. ↑ "Kat Rosenfield". Reason.com . Retrieved 2022-04-22.
  7. ↑ "Kat Rosenfield". UnHerd . Retrieved 2022-04-22.
  8. ↑ Rosenfield, Kat (August–September 2022). "Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers". Reason . Archived from the original on February 8, 2024. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
  9. ↑ Rosenfield, Kat (April 9, 2019). "What Is #OwnVoices Doing To Our Books?". Refinery29 . Archived from the original on July 15, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
  10. ↑ Rosenfield, Kat (August 7, 2017). "The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter". Vulture . Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
  11. ↑ "MWA Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Nominations". Mystery Writers of America . Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  12. ↑ Applegate, Julie (February 2, 2022). "Congratulations Kat Rosenfield!". Coxsackie-Athens Central School District. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  13. ↑ "In her new novel 'No One Will Miss Her,' Norwalk's Kat Rosenfield delivers a tantalizing psychological mystery". Connecticut Magazine . September 24, 2021. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  14. ↑ Reviews for You Must Remember This:
  15. ↑ Reviews for No One Will Miss Her:
  16. ↑ Reviews for A Trick of Light:
  17. ↑ "Book Reviews: Inland". Kirkus Reviews . May 12, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  18. ↑ Reviews for Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone:


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