About Kate Sutherland

Kate Sutherland was born in Dundee, Scotland. She moved to Canada with her family shortly thereafter, and she grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She now lives in Toronto where she is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Kate is the author of two collections of short stories: Summer Reading which won a Saskatchewan Book Award in 1995, and All In Together Girls which was published this spring by Thistledown Press. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary magazines including The New Quarterly, Taddle Creek, dig, Kiss Machine, Grain, This Magazine, Kitchen Talk, and The I.V. Lounge Reader.

Kate is co-organizer and co-host of the Fictitious Reading Series. She blogs about reading and writing at Kate's Book Blog, and she has written book reviews for The Women's Post, Books in Canada, and Word: Canada's Magazine for Readers + Writers. She is also the creator and facilitator of the short story discussion blog A Curious Singularity.

Kate is currently dividing her writing time between two big projects. The first is a non-fiction book about Scotland which is part travelogue and part family history. The second is a novel.