Kate Payne is a grant writer, part-time nanny, after-hours poet, occasional painter, trash collector, big-time procrastinator, tea, toast and jam obsessed Austenite-in-Brooklyn. She collects old typewriters; some of them still work. She studied anthropology and sociology in the Sonoran Desert. She worked on a tomato farm once, and paper-mached gigantic thumbs once, too. Her recent hobbies include rolling large items down the streets of her new Brooklyn home and contemplating urban gardening. The creator of the Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking website, she is the internet’s go to girl for domestic advice--an expert on thrift stores, flea markets, and Craigslist, and a frequent consultant for design, decorating, cooking, crafting, and urban living sites--as well as a creative writing instructor with the New York Writers Coalition where she leads writing workshops for all ages, from adults to elementary and middle school-aged children, and frequently uses her students to test out her new recipes. Most recently, they fell in love with her whole wheat bread balls.
