Kate Feld is a blogger and freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. She grew up in Vermont and lived in Taiwan and New York before emigrating to Lancashire in 2003.

She studied the Great Books programme at St. John’s College, Annapolis, and holds a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University in New York, where she was the 2003 Lorana Sullivan Fellow for Investigative Journalism. She was Founding Editor of Manchester arts magazine eightytwenty, and has worked with BBC Radio 4 and the Manchester Literature Festival.

She writes The Manchizzle (manchizzle.blogspot.com), a blog about Mancunian life both on and offline. She is the organiser of a programme of blogging events in the Northwest, including the first annual Manchester Blog Awards and a panel discussion about political blogs during the Labour Party Conference. Her freelance writing spans art, criticism, the media, literature and digital culture. Her piece on fiction blogs appears in the first issue of Revolve, a new North West arts magazine. Her first nonfiction book, The Flickheads’ Guide to Classic Movies, is to be published next summer in New York, and she is currently working on a novel.