Kate Harrington

Bancroft School

University of Texas - Austin, Attended 2002 - 2004, Class of 2004, Master's Degree, Journalism
Colby College, Attended 1996 - 2000, Class of 2000, Bachelor's Degree, English

Journalist, Red Sox fan

Texas 4000 for Cancer, Texas Press Association, Austin Business Journal, US Fencing, Texas Fencing Academy

cogent scones, procrastinating, Dubble Bubble, fencing, meeting fun inquisitive people, reading, road trips, skiing on snow, Red Sox, sleeping, hiking, swimming, grappling with rope swings, hanging out with my little sister, eating 4 Seas ice cream on Cape Cod, writing, traveling, the ocean

Pride & Prejudice, The Glass Castle, The Phantom Tollbooth, Outlander, Lonesome Dove, The Handmaid's Tale, White Teeth, A Clockwork Orange, The Lord of the Rings, A People's History of the United States, Endurance, House of Leaves, Norwegian Wood, anything by P.G. Wodehouse, The Mists of Avalon, The Name of the Rose, Midnight's Children, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Tender Bar

Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Shaun of The Dead, Harold and Maude, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Last of the Mohicans, Billy Eliot, The Sound of Music, The Tao of Steve, Raising Arizona, Casablanca, The Big Lebowski

The Ramones, The Beach Boys, johnny cash, dropkick murphys, flogging mollies, white ghost shivers, radiohead, Miles Davis, Cake, Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, Ella Fitzgerald, spoon, Erykah Badu, badly drawn boy, the smiths, leonard cohen, paul simon, the streets, the chieftans, shivaree

Sex & the City, Family Guy, Freaks & Geeks, The Office, My Super Sweet 16

Gemini

I'm a displaced Yankee who was born and raised in New England. I love wicked cold weather and clam chowda, but I've also learned to love Austin and the unique people who live here. I spent my youth skiing, hiking, singing Aerosmith songs in front of a mirror and with my nose in a book. I graduated from Colby College in 2000 and worked in South Boston, where I was exposed to the seedy underbelly of Southie life on a regular basis. In 2002 I came to Austin to get my masters in print journalism. When I graduated I decided I had more to learn about Austin and Texas so I stayed put and started to write. For a few years I covered Hays County politics for a small weekly paper called the Free Press, and I now cover transportation, health care and regional development for the Austin Business Journal. I drive a really old pickup truck that sometimes doesn't start, but I love it dearly.

Anyone who is kind, intelligent and fun.