KATE CHRISTENSEN is the author of eight novels and two food-centric memoirs. Her most recent novel is Welcome Home, Stranger (December 2023). Her fourth novel, The Great Man, won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award. Her stories, reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. She currently writes a regular monthly column for Frenchly.us called Bouffe. She lives in Taos, New Mexico with her husband and their two dogs.
Books in order of publication:
Fiction
In the Drink, Doubleday, 1999
Jeremy Thrane, Broadway, 2001
The Epicure’s Lament, Doubleday, 2004
The Great Man, Doubleday, 2007
Trouble, Doubleday, 2009
The Astral, Doubleday, 2011
The Last Cruise, Doubleday, 2018
Welcome Home, Stranger, 2023
The Arizona Triangle (as Sydney Graves), 2024
The Sacred & the Divine (with Melissa Henderson), 2025
Non-fiction
Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites, Doubleday, 2013
How to Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir, Islandport Press, 2015
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