Kate Silver
When I was growing up, reading gave me access to faraway worlds, intriguing characters and suspenseful plots.
Today, writing does.
As a journalist, I’ve peered into subcultures, met brilliant minds and collected casts of characters that could fill volumes.
I’ve learned about the strange world of worm farm schemes; met with a hit man hired to wreak havoc on a Las Vegas wedding chapel; told the story of a veteran’s salvation delivered in the form of a black Labrador retriever that was raised in a prison; wandered the streets of a town run by the The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; spent a year embedded as an independent beauty consultant in Mary Kay Cosmetics and the list goes on.
Being a writer allows me to connect in a deep and meaningful way, asking questions that get to the heart of who a person is and why they do what they do. Every person has a story. I love being the one that gets to hear—and share—those stories.
Kate Silver is a freelance journalist based in Chicago. She writes for the Washington Post, Midwest Living, Southwest: The Magazine, Men’s Health and other publications and creates content for corporate clients including Pfizer, GM, American Express and others. Silver is the author of the 2015 Frommer’s Easy Guide to Chicago.
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