Welcome to KateHopper.com

I'm a writer, teacher, editor, and mother (and wife and daughter and sister and friend...the list goes on and on).  Primarily, I write about motherhood: the dark side, the humorous side, the places where these two intersect. I love finding good writing that combats the myths of motherhood still perpetuated in our society and speaks honestly about what it is really like to be a mother.

I have an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, where I taught literature and creative writing. I currently teach "Mother Words," a course for mothers who write, at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.

My writing has appeared in Minnesota Parent, Preemie Magazine, mamazine, MotherVerse, StarTribune, and The Anthropology of Work Review. I'm currently finishing my first book, Ready for Air, a memoir about the premature birth of my daughter in 2003 due to severe preeclampsia.

In 2005, I was a finalist for a SASE/Jerome fellowship for emerging writers, and I've been the recipient of a Fulbright Grant, a Gesell Summer Fellowship at the Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota, a University of Minnesota English Department Outstanding Teacher Award for Graduate Assistants, and a 2008 MN State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant.

Welcome to my website! I hope you will find something of interest here. Please check out my upcoming classes! This fall I will be teaching "Mother Words" at the Open Book in Minneapolis on Thursday afternoons. Please also visit my blog for an on-going discussion about reading, writing and motherhood.