Kate Hill Cantrill
Kate Hill Cantrill is an American writer, artist and teacher. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas where she also studied Theatrical Painting, and a BA in English Writing with a minor in Studio Arts from The University of Pittsburgh. She has received fellowships from The James A. Michener Fund, The Corporation of Yaddo, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and The Jentel Artists' Residency. Her short stories, poems, and creative non-fiction work has appeared in literary magazines such as: Story Quarterly, Blackbird, Mississippi Review and The Believer. She presently lives just outside of her hometown of Philadelphia in South Jersey where she writes and teaches and seeks representation for the print, audio, and foreign rights to her novel, Please Don't Walk In And Misunderstand.
Kate Hill Cantrill is an American writer, artist and teacher. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas where she also studied Theatrical Painting, and a BA in English Writing with a minor in Studio Arts from The University of Pittsburgh. She has received fellowships from The James A. Michener Fund, The Corporation of Yaddo, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and The Jentel Artists'...
Books
Please Don’t Walk In And Misunderstand
Spanning nine months of a surrogate pregnancy between best friends, Please Don’t Walk In And Misunderstand is a novel that opens us to the inner, anxious world of Sophie, a life-long caretaker to her older, Polish immigrant parents who settled in America in an old mill neighborhood on the outskirts of Philadelphia after the Second World War....
Walk Back from Monkey School
“This debut collection is a constant surprise. There are tender, lyrical stories about longing and dogs and sick mothers and disoriented geese, and short pieces with jagged edges and daring rhythms about leaves and leaving, about fathers who swim laps in the ocean, and, everywhere, all day, children who notice.” - Pia Z. Ehrhardt author of...
Other Writing
Blog
6 week workshop
Thursday evenings, 7-9p est
February, 5 2026
This class has been filling quickly, so don't hesitate!
Hello Friends,
I'll be teaching my 6 week Writing Our Mother Wound multi-genre workshop via Writing Workshops Dallas starting on November 3rd! (Please click link above for full description).
This is a multi-genre creative writing workshop in which we will be transmuting generations of pain and dysfunction into inspiring and beautifully crafted works of art.
It is time reap the lessons from and be done with this wound! The Aquarian Age is here, which means we are coming home to The Mother, to...