About
A Zoom portrait taken of Kate during class in her New York apartment. Made by Vusala Alibayli in Azerbaijan --- April 2020
Kate Cammell is a multimedia storyteller focusing on culture and lifestyle writing. Her areas of interest include gender, sexuality, relationships, religion, travel and literature. As a graduate student at Columbia Journalism School, she's written about religious education in New York City, the intersection of religion and sex-ed, the lifestyle YouTube industry,marriage on evangelical college campuses, sexual health access in Mississippi and about a Midwestern megachurch going virtual during COVID-19. Her undergraduate thesis on dating culture, "Millennial Love Letters" received Highest Honors and the University of Michigan Honors Department's Virginia Voss Award. Her essay collection on religion and travel in India, "To the Sky" was the recipient of the University of Michigan's Hopwood Award for Nonficiton.
Kate's work has appeared in Covering Religion, Medium, The Grade, New York Magazine, SHEI Magazine, Midwestern Gothic Literary Journal, The Shapiro Review and The RC Review.
Journalism
and Editorial Experience
PEN America | New York, NY | Spring 2020
Prison and Justice Fellowship Intern
SHEI Magazine | Ann Arbor, MI |2016—2019
Features Writer
Carol Mann Literary Agency | New York, NY | Fall 2018
Editorial Intern
Midwestern Gothic Literary Journal | Ann Arbor, MI | Spring 2018
Editorial Intern
HarperCollins | Grand Rapids, MI | Summer 2017
Editorial Intern
PlanetRead | Pondicherry, India | Summer 2016
Editorial Intern
Awards
Course Honors, Religion Reporting
Columbia Journalism School, 2020
Course Honors, History
Columbia Journalism School, 2020
Highest Honors in Creative Writing
University of Michigan Honors Department, 2019
Virginia Voss Journalism Award
University of Michigan Honors Department, 2019
Achievement in Creative Writing
University of Michigan Residential College, 2019
Hopwood Nonfiction Award
University of Michigan, 2017
When she isn't writing you can find her practicing yoga, reading, backpacking, tutoring, making mediocre meals and collages.
To support her adventuring and education, she spent time working service jobs she loved at White Lotus Farms and Roos Roast Coffee, local businesses in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Education
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism—2020
MS, Journalism
University of Michigan—2019
BA, Creative Writing and Literature
Practicing at aUM Yoga in Ann Arbor, MI.
A typical day of work at White Lotus, a Buddhist farming community in Ann Arbor, MI.
Pondicherry International School of Yoga in India, one of Kate's favorite yoga communities. Read about how she ended up in their "housewife yoga class."
A solo backpacking trip to Los Azores Islands, Portugal.