Kate Harding is the author of Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture, a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and one of LitHub's "new feminist classics." With Samhita Mukhopadhyay, she is co-editor of Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America and co-host of the 12-episode podcast “Feminasty.” She's also co-author of The Book of Jezebel and Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere, a frequent college speaker, and a widely published essayist and opinion writer. 

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Kate holds an MFA in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a PhD in creative nonfiction from Bath Spa University. Her next book, Victim Complex, is forthcoming from St. Martin's. She lives in Chicago.

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