Kate Christensen is an American novelist. She won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her fourth novel, The Great Man, about a painter and the three women in his life. Her eleventh novel, Good Company, is forthcoming from HarperCollins in June 2026. She is also the author of two food-related memoirs, Blue Plate Special and How to Cook a Moose, the latter of which won the 2016 Maine Literary Award for memoir.