Kathryn Rosenfield (born March 16, 1982)[1][2] is an American culture writer, columnist and novelist.
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]
Books
[edit]- You Must Remember This (William Morrow, 2023)[14]
- No One Will Miss Her (William Morrow, 2021)[15]
- A Trick of Light (Mariner Books, 2019)[16]
- Inland (Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2014)[17]
- Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone (Speak, 2012)[18]
References
[edit]- ^ "Kat Rosenfield". Twitter. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
Born March 16
- ^ 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?"
- ^ a b "Kat Rosenfield". Bookmate. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Kat Rosenfield". LinkedIn. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ a b Turchiano, Danielle (March 15, 2018). "Kat Rosenfield to Co-Write Audible Stan Lee Project". Variety. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- ^ "Kat Rosenfield". Reason.com. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
- ^ "Kat Rosenfield". UnHerd. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Rosenfield, Kat (August 7, 2017). "The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter". Vulture. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
- ^ "MWA Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Nominations". Mystery Writers of America. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- ^ Applegate, Julie (February 2, 2022). "Congratulations Kat Rosenfield!". Coxsackie-Athens Central School District. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Reviews for You Must Remember This:
- Mangu-Ward, Katherine (2023-03-24). "Review: 'You Must Remember This' Grapples With the Dangers of Nostalgia". Reason. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
- ^ Reviews for No One Will Miss Her:
- Gendell, Yfat Reiss (July 15, 2021). "Mystery/Thriller Reviews: No One Will Miss Her". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- Gribbon, James (October 5, 2021). "Norwalk author delivers a tantalizing mystery in 'No One Will Miss Her'". The Hour. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- Lipez, Richard (2021-10-07). "5 New Thrillers, Mysteries to Read This Fall". The Franklin Favorite. pp. B6. Retrieved 2022-04-29 – via Newspapers.com.
- Beram, Nell (December 26, 2021). "Book review: Kat Rosenfield's thriller is blistering, its takedown of snobbery bravura". Portland Press Herald. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- Gregory, Vicki (December 2021). "Mystery: No One Will Miss Her". Library Journal. Vol. 146, no. 12. Retrieved April 29, 2022 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Reviews for A Trick of Light:
- Kirtley, David Barr (October 19, 2019). "Stan Lee's 'A Trick of Light' Explores the Dark Side of the Internet". Wired. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- "Stan Lee y la generación de superhéroes que dejó en su novela póstuma" [Stan Lee and the generation of superheroes he left behind in his posthumous novel]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). November 7, 2019. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- ^ "Book Reviews: Inland". Kirkus Reviews. May 12, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- ^ Reviews for Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone:
- Burns, Elizabeth (August 10, 2012). "Review: Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone". School Library Journal. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- "Book Reviews: Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone". Kirkus Reviews. May 30, 2012. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
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