About Kate Feiffer:

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Kate Feiffer has worked as writer, illustrator, editor, television and literary event producer, photo editor, and ice cream scooper. She is the author of eleven highly acclaimed books for children, and the 2024 humorous novel Morning Pages. She is also the illustrator of the poetry/parody The Lamb Cycle, published in April 2023.  

 

Kate has been the event producer for the annual Martha's Vineyard based writers' festival Islanders Write since it launched in 2014. She is also the Director of the MV Times Islanders Write program, which supports emerging journalists on Martha's Vineyard and sponsors writing workshops and events, and puts out a monthly newsletter.

 

Kate's writing and illustrations have appeared in newspapers and magazines on Martha's Vineyard, on HNN, NPR, and in Bluedot Living and Literary Hub . 

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Her drawings stem from a lifelong doodling habit. She has been drawing faces on scraps of paper and creating cartoons for as long as she can recall.  Her works have been in numerous group shows and three solo exhibitions (The Vineyard Playhouse Art Space,  2014 and 2019, and MV Film Center Feldman Art space 2022). Her work  can be seen this summer (2025) at the A Gallery in Edgartown MA, and the  The R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, MA.  She is available for assignments and commissions.

 

Kate has been a contributing editor for MV Arts & Ideas Magazine, the MV Times, and received a first place NENPA award  for her article on the stage actress Katherine Cornell. For years she illustrated an advice column in the MV Times called MV P's and Q's. She is also the former newsletter editor for the land conservation group Sheriff's Meadow Foundation and created an environmentally-based activity book for children commissioned by Sheriff's Meadow Foundation. 

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Before she turned to writing, Kate was a Boston based television talk show, news, and documentary film producer. She also produced, edited, and wrote the award-winning independent documentary Matzo & Mistletoe, which has been shown at film festivals across the country. 

 

Kate's daughter Maddy was the inspiration for her books Double Pink and My Mom is Trying to Ruin My Life, and her dog Henry inspired Henry the Dog with No Tail.

 

Kate currently divides her time between Martha’s Vineyard and New York City. She is represented by Rosemary Stimola at Stimola Literary Studio.

 

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