Kate Harding

Kate Harding is author of Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture—and What We Can Do About It (Da Capo, 2015) and co-author of The Book of Jezebel (Grand Central, 2013) and Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere (Perigee, 2009). She has blogged or otherwise written for publications including Salon, Jezebel, The Guardian, and the L.A. Times, and contributed essays to the anthologies Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, Feed Me: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight and Body Image, and Madonna and Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop. A graduate of the MFA in writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Kate is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Bath Spa University. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, their corgi-pug mix, and a batshit chihuahua.