Kate Leaver is an author, editor, and broadcaster.

Kate has published two non-fiction books: Good Dog, which is about dogs who’ve changed human lives, and The Friendship Cure. She’s also edited books, including Love Work Body by Future Women and Teaching Consent by Jane Gilmore.

Kate worked on the podcast There’s No Place Like Home for Future Women, which is about men’s violence in Australia (and won two Mumbrella Awards for Best Podcast Series and Episode). She hosts the show Who’s A Good Dog where she asks people cute questions about their dogs. Sometimes she works with brands and apps, like Peanut, Bumble, Snapchat, and Hey Lemonade.

She runs a Substack newsletter called ENTHUSIASM.

As a journalist, Kate’s work has been published by British Vogue, Glamour, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sydney Morning Herald, and elsewhere. She writes about things like friendship, loneliness, love, mental health, pop science, pop culture, rescue pets, and the climate crisis.

Her favourite professional experiences so far include meeting Zendaya, reviewing Christie Whelan’s first cabaret show, having a cheese toastie with Andrew Solomon, yelling “Free Britney” on MSNBC News, being mentioned by name on Taylor Swift’s Instagram, and making the first female Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, laugh.

Kate formerly worked for Australia’s biggest women’s website, an evening radio show, a world-famous glossy magazine, and the digital offshoot of a major film and literary franchise.

She is currently working on her first novel.

Kate Leaver is represented Jemima Forrester at David Higham Associates.

You can also get in touch with her directly, if you’d like, via the contact page. Be nice.