Kate Amatruda's short story "Wizzy-wig" won an honorable mention in the prestigious 2008 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition.

Kate is a member of the Left Coast Writers, and is a member of the Marin Writers Salon. She attended the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop in August 2008. When she's not responding to disasters, seeing clients, or doing math homework with her son, she's scrying for an agent for her novel, a salsa version of Pride and Prejudice with a gender twist.