Kate Bernheimer is an author, fairy tale scholar, and editor. Her many books include the bestselling collection My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, and have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including Catalan, Chinese, Greek, French, Korean, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish. She is the founding editor of the award-winning literary journal Fairy Tale Review. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. 

Her newest short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, American Short Fiction, The Adroit Journal, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. With Laird Hunt, she was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for the co-authored novella Office at Night, a joint commission of Coffee House Press and The Walker Art Center. She is also author of author of three children's books published by Penguin Random House. Her nonfiction about fairy tales has been featured such places as The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker (Page-Turner blog), The New York Times Book Review, and NPR's "All Things Considered."

Along with her brother, Andrew Bernheimer of Bernheimer Architecture, she has curated the long-running Fairy Tale Architecture series for Places Journal which has featured designs by Rice + Lipka, Solid Objectives (SO-IL), Leven Betts, and many other distinguished architects.

"Anyone attracted to fairy tales and fables should check out the stories and criticism of Kate Bernheimer."

—author Benjamin Percy in The New York Times