A founding faculty member in Bay Path University’s MFA program, Kate Whouley is the 2012 recipient of the New England Book Award in nonfiction for her memoir, Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words. Her first book, Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved, was a BOMC Memoir-of-the-Month selection and a Book Sense Book of the Year nominee. Like many of our faculty, Kate works across genres. Excerpts from her in-progress novel, The Maestro and Her Protégé, earned Kate finalist status for a Deming Foundation fiction fellowship in 2018, the same year she received the Distinguished Teaching Award at Bay Path.
Kate regularly writes essays and features for Yankee magazine, and her short work has also appeared in Salon, Obit, Shelf Awareness, Beyond the Margins, Multiplicity, Beacon Broadside, The Boston Globe, and The Cape Cod Times. She has also authored, edited, and contributed to several professional titles, including Bookselling for Dummies and The Practical Writer: From Inspiration to Publication.
Kate, a longtime book industry consultant, supervises the publishing track in our MFA. She also works with thesis students to craft their capstone projects, and serves as executive editor for Multiplicity, the Bay Path literary magazine, where she curates the “Quick Work” series that precedes every issue. Kate lives and writes on Cape Cod in the cottage that inspired her first memoir.
Please visit the MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing program page to learn about the curriculum, faculty, program options, and more.
