Writing

My novel, Arboria Park, was published on May 17, 2017. Buy it from bookshop.org or other sources (ebooks available):

Other writing, starting with the most recent:

Two recent posts to the JER Panorama Early Republic Tracker that I wish I hadn’t had to make, about erasure of history: September 8, 2025 https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/08/iowa-historical-society/ and July 29, 2025 https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/29/content-review/

On July 6, 2020, a letter I wrote was published in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/opinion/letters/baby-boomers.html

On April 2, 2019, I contributed to this PunkNews tribute to the late Brittany Strummer: https://www.punknews.org/article/69505/inmemoriam-for-brittany-strummer

Right after the book was published, I wrote this for Women Writers, Women’s Books, about the inspiration for Arboria Park: https://booksbywomen.org/author/katetw/

Some older pieces were published in the punk blog I Live Sweat back in 2011: on punk’s relationship to economics https://ilivesweat-blog.tumblr.com/post/9964162334/if-you-didnt-want-to-scoop-ice-cream-for-a and one on age discrimination in punk that doesn’t seem to be available anymore.