Kate Sweeney

Kate Sweeney lives in Atlanta where she writes and creates public radio stories. While pursuing her MFA at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, she spent time with obit writers, funeral directors and ordinary Americans who found themselves involved with death and memorialization. The result is the popular nonfiction book, American Afterlife (University of Georgia Press). About American Afterlife, Paste Magazine wrote, "Sweeney writes the perfect story for our time, in the best possible way," and bestselling author Thomas Lynch calls the book "a reliable witness and well-wrought litany to last things and final details."

Kate's radio stories appear regularly on Atlanta's NPR station, WABE 90.1 FM, and her work has won four Edward R. Murrow awards as well as a number of Associated Press awards. Her writing has appeared several times in Oxford American Magazine, as well as Utne Reader Online, Atlanta Magazine and New South, among other outlets. Kate's from Pittsburgh, and misses its rusted out architecture and real hoagies. More here: www.katesweeney.net