Kathryn Rosenfield (born March 16, 1982)[1][2] is an American culture writer, columnist and novelist.

Beginning in 2004, Rosenfield worked in various communications jobs, including a publicist for Penguin Books, copywriter for the Brooklyn Public Library, and freelance writer for various magazines and corporate clients.[3][4] From 2010 to 2016, Rosenfield was a reporter for MTV News.[4][5]

Rosenfield writes for Reason and UnHerd.[6][7] As a journalist, she has covered a number of controversies in book publishing, including sensitivity readers,[8] the #ownvoices movement,[9] and social media backlash to the young adult fiction novel The Black Witch.[10]

In 2019, Rosenfield's book A Trick of Light was released, which she co-wrote with comic book writer Stan Lee.[5] In 2022, her book No One Will Miss Her (2021) was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel.[11]

Rosenfield graduated from Coxsackie High School in 1999 and Drew University in 2003.[12][4][3] She now lives in Norwalk, Connecticut.[13]

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  1. ^ "Kat Rosenfield". Twitter. Retrieved March 24, 2023. Born March 16
  2. ^ Rosenfield, Kat [@katrosenfield] (January 31, 2022). "6 weeks!" (Tweet). Retrieved March 24, 2023 – via Twitter. This tweet replied to a question: "Is your 40th birthday soon?"
  3. ^ a b "Kat Rosenfield". Bookmate. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  4. ^ a b c "Kat Rosenfield". LinkedIn. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  5. ^ a b Turchiano, Danielle (March 15, 2018). "Kat Rosenfield to Co-Write Audible Stan Lee Project". Variety. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  6. ^ "Kat Rosenfield". Reason.com. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
  7. ^ "Kat Rosenfield". UnHerd. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
  8. ^ Rosenfield, Kat (August–September 2022). "Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers". Reason. Archived from the original on February 8, 2024. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
  9. ^ Rosenfield, Kat (April 9, 2019). "What Is #OwnVoices Doing To Our Books?". Refinery29. Archived from the original on July 15, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
  10. ^ Rosenfield, Kat (August 7, 2017). "The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter". Vulture. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
  11. ^ "MWA Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Nominations". Mystery Writers of America. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  12. ^ Applegate, Julie (February 2, 2022). "Congratulations Kat Rosenfield!". Coxsackie-Athens Central School District. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  13. ^ "In her new novel 'No One Will Miss Her,' Norwalk's Kat Rosenfield delivers a tantalizing psychological mystery". Connecticut Magazine. September 24, 2021. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  14. ^ Reviews for You Must Remember This:
  15. ^ Reviews for No One Will Miss Her:
  16. ^ Reviews for A Trick of Light:
  17. ^ "Book Reviews: Inland". Kirkus Reviews. May 12, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  18. ^ Reviews for Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone:
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