Selected Essays and Interviews

“There are hinge points in time when life could be one thing, or another.” Read Kate Hope Day’s essay in the New York Times, “Carrying the Ghosts of Lives Unlived."

“Now my writing philosophy is not so much ‘touch the work every day’ but something more like, ‘check the work’s pulse every day.’” Her essay on novel craft, “How do you Keep a Novel Alive When it Keeps Trying to Die,” can be found in Lit Hub.

Listen to Kate discussing In the Quick, the inspirations behind the book, and her writing and revision process on the Writer’s Bone podcast.

Listen to Kate talk about In the Quick, feminism, and her background in Victorian literature on the Feminist Book Club podcast.

In Lit Hub, her essay about fiction, trauma, and the stories of Kelly Link, “When the Eeriness of Trauma Can Only be Understood Through Fiction.”

Read an interview with 1859 Oregon’s Magazine where Kate talks about If, Then, Oregon, and her writing process.

If, Then was featured in Cassandra Landry’s beautiful essay on multiverse stories in the San Fransisco Chronicle: "We live in a multiverse of multiverses, but what does that say about us?"