About

“Evans is an irrepressible investigator” – NZ Listener, 2024

“Evans’s curiosity is contagious” – Covering Climate Now Awards for Climate Change Journalism, 2024  

“A writer at the top of her game, Kate crafts compelling stories on issues of critical importance – including climate change and environmental sustainability – and does it in such a fair, balanced and accurate manner that she helps engender trust in magazine journalism.” — New Zealand Magazine Awards, 2022

I’m a writer and storyteller. I love science, nature, culture, food, and weird animal facts—anything that piques my boundless curiousity about this mind-blowingly interesting planet we all call home.

I’m a regular contributor to New Zealand Geographic Magazine, including a regular collaboration with cartoonist Giselle Clarkson—a column on evolution.

I’ve made a podcast on ocean science, Voice of Tangaroa, for Radio New Zealand, and I’ve written and reported for international media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Scientific American, National Geographic News, the Guardian, BBC Future, Undark, and EOS.

I also do science communication work for research organisations and NGOs whose mission I believe in, including the United Nations Environment Programme, Center for International Forestry Research, the International Livestock Research Institute, and the NZ Mountain Safety Council—if you’re keen to work together, reach out.

My first book, a work of nature writing about my favourite fruit in the world, the feijoa, came out in March 2024. As an author I am represented by a different Kate Evans, who is a literary agent at Peters, Fraser + Dunlop in the UK. For book enquiries, contact her.

Send story ideas, interview requests or proposals to collaborate to me, at: kategevans@gmail.com