About

Hello! It's KATE MCAULEY - an Australian-born, New York–based writer, photographer, and artist.

I’m a storyteller at heart. For three decades, I’ve travelled, lived, and worked across ten countries and visited more than a hundred others, documenting people, places, and cultures through the lenses of art, travel, food and fashion.

My work has appeared in a wide range of international publications, including Bon Appétit, The Australian, Art Almanac, Elle, Esquire, Time Out, Harper’s Bazaar, The Big Issue, Lodestars Anthology, Jamie Magazine, Huffington Post, and Grazia. 

I've also created content and campaigns for corporate clients, including YouTube, Google, the Moroccan Tourist Board, Jamie Oliver, Match.com, Stylist, Control Risks, , Flinders Lane Gallery, and the Sydney Opera House. And, as a ghostwriter, I’ve penned a number of celebrity memoirs too. 

I’m currently writing Hostile Environments: A Love Story, a memoir about the dangerous places I’ve been and the extreme (and often absurd) situations I’ve survived - from being questioned by Cameroonian police under suspicion of espionage and caught in the crossfire of rioting raskols in Papua New Guinea, to surviving trauma, loss, and a life threatening illness. I'm also pleased to announced that I'm working on my first solo art exhibition - Water Baby - scheduled for late February 2027 in Sydney, Australia. 

As a companion to these projects, I publish a newsletter on Substack, where my subscribers receive essays, reflections, and behind-the-scenes notes on my process as I navigate my way through these two monumental tasks!