Kate Nason

Kate Nason is a writer who earned her BA in Art History from the University of California at Los Angeles. She moved to Florence, Italy after graduation to immerse herself in its rich visual history. After two blissful years, she reluctantly returned to Los Angeles to enjoy a rewarding career in the LA contemporary art scene. In 1994, she moved to Portland, Oregon where she started her own design business, divorced her second husband, and raised two children as a happily-single mother. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband—proof that two wrongs do make a right. Kate returns to Florence every chance she gets.

Articles and interviews

August 3, 2021

My Private Heartbreak Became a Public Scandal. Telling My Story Helped Me Reclaim It.

For decades, my ex-husband's shattering betrayal was engulfed by one of the biggest media stories of the 1990s, whose memories I thought I'd boxed up for good. Could writing my memoir, and unpacking those ghosts, finally set me free?