About Kate

The 300-word summary of my life to date: My travels started at the age of 11 months, when my intrepid parents took my two young brothers, my grandmother, and me on a European tour. Despite my sour childhood temperament, I cried only about half the time and otherwise immensely enjoyed myself—perhaps a hint to future wanderlust.

I grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts and Irvington, New York. At Dartmouth College, I studied art history and literature, toiled as a coxswain for the varsity women's crew, nurtured my inner dirtbag in the surrounding mountains, and occasionally pulled weeds at the organic farm.

While my classmates dutifully filed off to law school, med school, and other respectable institutions, I bought a one-way ticket to Italy and went to work on organic farms in Sicily, Calabria, and Le Marche, eventually landing in Rome with an internship at the Associated Press bureau. I covered Italian Beatlemania, chocolate festivals, and other "news" while learning how to look stylish on the back of a photographer's Vespa. Later I moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I interned at Outside magazine and fell in love with the Southwest's abundance of sunshine and blue skies. After finishing my internship and working as an editor on the travel desk, I moved to Durango, Colorado to freelance.

I have stayed here happily ever since, traveling to some extremely interesting places in search of good stories. Along the way, I've had the opportunities to meet monks in Bhutan, dive with 1,000-pound bull sharks in Fiji, shoot blow-guns in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and track endangered rhinos for a conservation project in South Africa. My work has received awards from FOLIO and the North American Travel Journalists Association. At home in Durango, I run, climb, hike, backback, bike, backcountry ski, practice yoga, coax vegetables to grow in my backyard, tinker with cameras, and occasionally make pottery.

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