Kate Lebo's first cookbook, Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour, and Butter (Sasquatch Books), invites you, through pie-making, to use your senses, trust yourself, and make what you can with what you have. She is also the author of A Commonplace Book of Pie (Chin Music Press 2013) and The Pie Lady's Manifesto, a zine republished by The Rumpus in 2014. Her writing has appeared in Best New Poets, the New England Review, Gastronomica, Willow Springs, AGNI, The Washington Post, Poetry Northwest, and other places. A devotee of book art, she's an editor for the handmade literary journal Filter and has a long history of zine-making. She teaches poetry and food writing workshops across the nation, but especially at Richard Hugo House and The Pantry at Delancey in Seattle. After graduating from the University of Washington's MFA program, she founded Pie School, her traveling pastry academy.Since then, she has judged the Iowa State Fair Pie Contest, baked at the American Gothic House, and won Best in Show at the first annual Cake vs. Pie Competition. At Pie Stand she taps into the social magic of pie to create conversations across communities and give people a taste of her original baked creations.Kate was raised in the Pacific Northwest by Iowans. She's lived on the wet half of Washington State almost all her life and currently resides near Portland, Oregon. She has ambivalent feelings about pie a la mode. She adores rhubarb.