Ms Kate Feld
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
Lecturer in Journalism
Biography
Kate Feld is a writer, editor and journalism lecturer based in Manchester. A native of Vermont, USA. she began her journalism career in 1999 as a newspaper reporter in New England. She received a BA (hon) in Great Books from St. John's College, Annapolis. She earned a MS in Journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, New York, where she was a 2003 Lorana Sullivan Fellow for Investigative Reporting.
After working for Associated Press in New York, she emigrated to the UK in 2004. Her varied career in UK journalism has included editing arts magazines, food writing, literary events, cultural criticism and freelancing for publications including The Guardian, Time Out and The Independent and as a researcher for BBC Radio 4. She also developed projects including The Blog North Awards (2006-2015) and The Real Story, an Arts Council-funded journal and event series aimed at developing the form of creative nonfiction in the UK, which ran 2014-2019.
She has worked as a journalism lecturer at Salford since 2014. She is module leader for the undergraduate Feature Writing and Dissertations modules on BA Journalism. She completed a PG CAP in academic practice and is a member of the Higher Education Association. She currently combines part-time teaching with a continuing freelance career in literary events and her work as a poet and essayist. Her writing has been widely published in journals and anthologies and her debut pamphlet of poetry and photography, Deeryard, was published in 2024 by independent press Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers.