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Kate Betterton
 Kate Betterton grew up in the Mississippi Delta, in Greenville, a town situated on a long lake that was originally a loop of the mighty river.
Kate has worked in homeless shelters and psych wards, taught canoeing, run dream workshops, and maintained a long-term psychotherapy practice. She has an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, and an MSW from the University of Washington in Seattle. Growing up in one of the country’s poorest areas gave her an interest in issues of social justice, reflected in her fiction. She has lived in Minnesota, New Orleans, New England, and the Pacific Northwest.
After years of living in the north, Kate answered the siren song of the South, and now lives with her family in Chapel Hill, NC. Her work has been published in The Sun, The Southerner, and local publications. She is the recipient of a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation of the Bronx, NY, was awarded an Emerging Artist Grant by the Durham, NC Arts Council, and won the 2008 Novello Literary Award for Where the Lake Becomes the River. She’s a member of the Chapel Hill Writers’ Group, and the Durham Writers' Meetup Group.
Kate is also a musician. While living for years in New Orleans and Cambridge, MA, she played original songs, accompanied with guitar and dulcimer, at coffee houses, clubs and colleges. A CD of Kate's songs is in the works.
Books by Kate Betterton
Where the Lake Becomes the River (2008)
Links
Visit Kate Betterton’s Web site at http://www.katebetterton.com.
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