Kathy Dalle-Molle

About Me

I am a writer and editor. My journalism, personal essays, and short fiction have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Fast Company, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Review of Books, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Last Page and the Santa Clara Review. As an editor, I have collaborated on more than 75 non-fiction books, reporting case studies, developmental and line-editing, fact-checking and securing rights and permissions.

Why do you write?

I write because I like to write. I like to share my words, and I like others to share their words with me. I find joy in people learning something from what I write, and I find joy in learning something from what others write.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Favorite authors, today, right now, typing their names as they come into my head: Richard Yates, Lorrie Moore, Mona Simpson, Joan Didion, Lydia Davis, Amy Hempel, William Maxwell, Wendy Wasserstein, Nora Ephron.

Favorite books, today, right now, typing the titles as they come into my head: Manhattan When I Was Young by Mary Cantwell, Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis, Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Personal History by Katharine Graham, The Hours by Michael Cunningham, A Working Girl Can't Win by Deborah Garrison, Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson, The Easter Parade by Richard Yates