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

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Career

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]

In June 2024, Rosenfield's essay "Does Divorce Make You Hotter?" [12] was published [online] by the media company [formerly known as 'Common Sense', and then...] called The Free Press.

Personal life

Rosenfield graduated from Coxsackie High School in 1999 and Drew University in 2003. [13] [4] [3] She now lives in Norwalk, Connecticut. [14]

Books

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  2. Rosenfield, Kat [@katrosenfield] (February 1, 2022). "6 weeks!" (Tweet). Retrieved March 24, 2023 via Twitter. This tweet replied to a question: "Is your 40th birthday soon?"
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  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. Rosenfield, Kat (June 1, 2024). "Does Divorce Make You Hotter? / [sub-titled] 'Glamorizing a marital split is narcissism disguised as feminism.'". Archived from the original on June 2, 2024. Retrieved June 2, 2024. It's a hazard of our present moment that everything—every issue, institution, hobby, aesthetic, object—can be sorted into Team This or Team That. Marriage is no exception: between its traditional roots and fraught history as a vehicle for female subjugation, it naturally gets dumped into the "right-wing" box by those who insist on categorizing everything along a political binary.
  13. Applegate, Julie (February 2, 2022). "Congratulations Kat Rosenfield!". Coxsackie-Athens Central School District. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  14. "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.
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