Kate Baer is an American writer who currently lives in

Hummelstown, Pennsylvania Hummelstown is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,535 as of the 2020 census. It is part of the Harrisburg– Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. Originally named Fredrickstown, the town was establ ...

. Her writing describes a range of topics, including motherhood, love, and loss.

Early life and education

Baer grew up outside of

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

, the daughter of an elementary school teacher and a meatpacking plant worker-turned-Christian radio host. She learned about poetry as she majored in English at

Eastern Mennonite University Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) is a private Mennonite university in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The university also operates a satellite campus in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which primarily caters to working adults. EMU's bachelor-degree holders ...

. Her favorite writer is

Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nin ...

Publications

Her first piece of paid writing was a book of poetry entitled ''What Kind of Woman''. The book was published in 2020, and topped the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list. In 2020 she started to write poetry for her second book. Leveraging the style of

erasure poetry Erasure is a form of found poetry or found object art created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem. The results can be allowed to stand ''in situ'' or they can be arranged into lin ...

, Baer turned messages and hate mail she received via social media into poems. The poems that resulted were published as a second collection titled ''I Hope This Finds You Well'' in 2021. Baer's third poetry collection, ''And Yet: Poems,'' was published on 8 November 2022. Like the previous collections, ''And Yet: Poems'', was a ''New York Times'' Best Seller.

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