Kate Racculia

Kate Racculia is an American novelist who is best known for her novels, This Must Be the Place and Bellweather Rhapsody, the latter of which won the American Library Association’s Alex Award. She followed those books up with Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts. Kate grew up in Syracuse, New York where she played the bassoon. She later headed to the University of Buffalo for college where she studied illustration, design, Jane Austen, and Canada. After graduation, she went on to Emerson College in Boston where she earned her MFA. She made Boston her home for a time and held multiple jobs including as a cartoonist, a planetarium operator, a movie and music reviewer, a coffee jerk, a bookseller, a designer, a finance marketing proposal writer, and a fundraising prospect researcher. In addition to writing novels, Kate teaches online for Grub Street and works at her local public library. Get notified when Kate Racculia releases a new book at BookNotification.com.