Kate Leaver is a journalist, author, and former professional fairy.
Career highlights include meeting Zendaya, yelling “Free Britney” on MSNBC News, being mentioned on Taylor Swift’s Instagram, interviewing Jon Ronson about his dogs, and making the first female Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, laugh.
As a journalist, Kate’s work has been published by British Vogue, Glamour, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sydney Morning Herald, and elsewhere. She writes about things like pop culture, mental health, love, loneliness, rescue pets, and the climate crisis.
Kate once worked for a popular Australian website, an evening radio show, a glossy women’s magazine, and the digital offshoot of a major film and literary franchise. Now, she works for herself.
She has published two non-fiction books: Good Dog and The Friendship Cure. She also edits books! Like, for example, Work Love Body by Future Women and Teaching Consent by Jane Gilmore.
Kate worked on the podcast There’s No Place Like Home, which is about men’s violence in Australia (and won two Mumbrella Awards for Best Podcast Series and Episode). She hosts the show Who’s A Good Dog, where she asks people cute questions about their dogs. Sometimes she works with brands and apps, like Peanut, Bumble, Snapchat, and Hey Lemonade.
Kate runs a Substack newsletter called ENTHUSIASM. Subscribe! Sometimes it’s about potatoes, other times human rights, because we contain multitudes!
Kate is currently working on her first novel.
She is represented Jemima Forrester at David Higham Associates.
She is most likely to be found in Sydney or London.
You can get in touch with her directly, if you’d like, via the contact page. Be nice.
