Brief biography:
Kate Bolick is an author, freelance journalist, and lecturer in the English Department at Yale University. Her first book, the best-selling Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own, was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2015 and translated into multiple languages. She co-authored March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women (Library of America, 2019), and wrote the introductions to The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Penguin Classics, 2019), Flowers and their Meanings: The Secret Language and History of Over 600 Blooms, by Karen Azoulay (Clarkson Potter, 2023), and The Prodigal Women, by Nancy Hale (Library of America, 2023). Her newest book, Every Friend a Phantom, is forthcoming from Random House in 2026.
Bolick’s journalism and criticism appear in The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Vogue, among other publications. Previously, she was executive editor of Domino, a columnist for The Boston Globe’s Ideas Section, online literary editor of The Atlantic, and taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, and New York University.
Bolick grew up in Newburyport, MA, and lives in New Haven, CT.
Areas for involvement with Morse students:
I love advising and mentoring students of all ages, particularly those interested in pursuing studies in writing, and/or a career in writing, editing, journalism, or publishing.