Kate Doyle is a critically acclaimed writer, director, performer, and cross-disciplinary artist, originally from the U.S. and now living in Amsterdam.

Kate is the author of the debut short story collection I Meant It Once, a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and longlisted for the Story Prize. The collection was described as “quietly devastating… unmistakably individual and exciting” in the Irish Times. It was a featured title in the Cork International Short Story Festival and the Ithaca College New Voices Festival, among others.

Kate’s writing has been published in No Tokens, Electric Literature, Split Lip, Chicago Review of Books, Joyland, The Millions, Lit Hub, Wigleaf, ANMLY, and elsewhere, and she has received support from Creative Europe, A Public Space, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hawthornden Foundation, New York University, and the Adirondack Center for Writing.

As a theater artist, Kate directed the Edinburgh Fringe 2025 debut of Furniture Boys by writer-performer Emily Weitzman, hailed in The Guardian as “ingenious… a beautifully controlled production that’s alternately ridiculous and revelatory.” With Jacob Combs, she directed the subsequent 2026 sold-out run at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse, which was recommended in the New York Times, and she will direct the show’s 2026 Edinburgh Fringe encore run.

Kate has lived in New York City, where she received an MFA from NYU, and in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, where she worked in a bookshop. She currently lives in Amsterdam—where she runs Luna Boeken (a project to support authors with book publicity), teaches writing workshops, and regularly performs long-form improv at acclaimed comedy theater Boom Chicago. She has a dog who loves books as much as she does.