Kate Kostelnik

Kate Kostelnik is an associate professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Virginia. Her scholarship has been published in Creative Writing: Teaching, Theory, and Practice; The Fiction Writers Review; and Pedagogy. Her work in collections include a discussion of the intersections between creative writing pedagogy and writing center theory in Creative Writing Pedagogies for the 21st Century (SIUP). In Changing Creative Writing in America (NCTE) she argues for the incorporation of literature and imaginative writing in First-Year Composition in the collection. Her most recent edited collection, Speaking Back: Writing and Tutoring Across Cultures, published in 2025 by Parlor Press, showcases student essays from her community-engaged writing center practicum and was published by Parlor Press last year. She teaches first-year English and writing (ENWR) courses that combine multiple aspects of English studies. She also teaches community-engaged, literature, and upper-level pedagogy courses that ask what it means to communicate and learn across cultures.