Kate Wenner worked for twenty years as a print and television journalist and editor. She left journalism to write, publishing two novels, staging a full length play and a one-act, and has recently completed her second memoir.
She grew up in Marin County, California, attended the Putney School in Vermont, and graduated from Harvard University. She took a year off from college to work as a volunteer in a tiny village in Tanzania, which she wrote about in her first book, published during her senior year of college. Upon graduation, she was awarded at Michael Rockefeller Memorial Traveling Fellowship, and spent a year-and-a-half living in Peru and traveling throughout Central and South America.
Wenner has been married for over forty years to the artist Gil Eisner. They have two adult children and currently live in the beautiful rural Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.