Kate Leaver is a journalist, author, and former professional fairy.
She’s currently a producer on the much-loved, chart-topping podcast, Just The Gist with Rosie Waterland. Kate writes regularly for The Guardian and The Big Issue, edits manuscripts, and publishes a Substack newsletter called ENTHUSIASM. (Subscribe! Sometimes it’s about potatoes, other times human rights, because we contain multitudes).
Kate is also working on her first novel. She is represented by wonderful Jemima Forrester at David Higham Associates.
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Kate’s 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 Independent, The Sydney Morning Herald, and elsewhere. She’s appeared on BBC Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio London, ITV News, ABC Breakfast, Radio National and The Today Show. She writes and talks about things like pop culture, health, human relationships, psychology, rescue pets, and the climate crisis.
Kate once worked as a senior editor on a popular Australian women’s website, producer on an evening radio show, features editor on a glossy women’s magazine, and launch editor of the digital offshoot of a major film and literary franchise.
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 Leaver worked on the Future Women 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 hosted the show Who’s A Good Dog, where she asked people cute questions about their dogs. Sometimes she works with brands and apps, like Peanut, Bumble, Snapchat, and Hey Lemonade.
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.
