Kate E. Lore is a creative writer of many modes, an artist, and a freelance creator. They’ve had a handful of short stories, comics, and nonfiction essays published in various literary magazines such as Black Warrior Review, Cleaver Magazine, Under the Gum Tree, Longridge Review, and Bending Genres. Openly queer, Kate is also neurodivergent having been diagnosed with both autism, and ADHD. Born to a widowed mother and raised in a low-income household, Kate is the youngest of four, the second to graduate high school, first bachelor’s degree, and the first MFA in the family.