Kate Wilson double-majored in music and English at Stanford University and has an MA in Medieval Studies and a PhD in English from The Catholic University of America. Her passion is helping others learn to write, which she does on a daily basis in her work teaching first-year writing and argument at American University. Kate lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her musician husband, Andy, her horse-whisperer daughter, Clara, and is joined during school breaks by her college student daughter, Emily.