Kate Viera

Kate Vieira is a writer, a writing teacher, and a writing-studies scholar. Her academic books are about writing among undocumented immigrants in the U.S. (American by Paper, University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and writing in immigrant families in Eastern Europe and South America (Writing for Love and Money, Oxford University Press, under contract). Her newest project involves writing for peace among youth in Colombia. She is at work on a memoir, Fieldwork, about single-parenting and international research. Her creative writing has appeared on the Tin House website and in Writing on the Edge, where her essay “Fieldwork with a Five-Year-Old” won the 2018 Donald R. Murray Prize. A recipient of awards from the Spencer Foundation, the National Academy of Education, and the Fulbright Program, she is an English professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where she lives with her daughter.