Kate Winborne

Growing up an artist, Writer-Director Kate Winborne was born in the trees of Auburn, California, to a small family of Irish-German and 4th-generation Polish immigrants. Her childhood, following a work opportunity for her father, then transitioned from the San Francisco and LA coasts to the suburbs and mountains of Colorado, where she worked her first job at the local movie theater while attending high school. During her college career and following the publication of her first three books and a sold-out book signing, she became known professionally as "The Rotten Girl," founded a writers' retr…