Kate Wenner is an award-winning novelist, journalist, and playwright whose work explores resilience, trauma, and the redemptive power of storytelling. A longtime ABC News 20/20 producer and recipient of multiple national journalism awards, she brings the same depth of inquiry to her fiction, nonfiction, and theater. Her writing often bridges the personal and political, illuminating the ways people confront loss, moral ambiguity, and healing through narrative.
She grew up in Marin County, California, attended the Putney School in Vermont, and graduated from Harvard University. She took a year off from college to work as a volunteer in a tiny village in Tanzania, which she wrote about in her first book, published during her senior year of college. Upon graduation, she was awarded at Michael Rockefeller Memorial Traveling Fellowship, and spent a year-and-a-half living in Peru and traveling throughout Central and South America.
Wenner has been married for over forty years to the artist Gil Eisner. They have two adult children and currently live in the beautiful rural Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.