Kate Bucca (she/her) is a queer mad/neurodivergent writer, artist, and educator who holds an MEd in Leadership in Learning from the University of Prince Edward Island and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of a novel, Companion Plants, which Ryan Boudinot called “an audacious debut by a writer who more than delivers on her promises." Her short story, “Chlorine,” was selected by Kate Bernheimer for The Masters Review Anthology VIII. Her work has been a finalist for the Hillary Gravendyk Prize, semi-finalist for the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Competition, and short-listed for the Nervous Ghost Press Prize for Poetry.
Kate is a PhD candidate at the University of Prince Edward Island, where she focuses on inclusive education, writing instruction, low-residency education, and arts-based research. She served as Editorial Assistant for Educational Fabulations: Teaching and Learning for a World Yet to Come and as a sessional instructor at UPEI.
Kate works as a 7th grade English Language Arts teacher in Maine’s public school system. When not teaching, she typically can be found writing, painting, gardening, cooking, or doing the jars to put up the harvest. She is currently at work on a picture book series, collection of essays, and literary horror novel. She lives in central Maine with the writer Dominic Bucca and two cats, Chaos and Complexity.