Presentations & Appearances

                       Kate is always professional yet accessible—she’s a brilliant and inspirational speaker!​
–Lisa Kangas, PhD
​To contact Kate about speaking at your event, click here. 

​Readings
​Iron Horse Cowgirls
Jan 24, 2024 Magers & Quinn 
in conversation with Kate Hopper

Nov 4, 2023 at North Shore
​Readers & Writers Festival
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Oct 11, 2023 Release Party
at Becketwood

Sharing insights on WIMA's founder at its 75th anniversary conference Sept 2025

In conversation with Mary Carroll Moore at the Loft Oct 2023

​Retreats
​July 12, 2024
Hamline University
Teaching Outside the Box
MFAC Alums

​November 1-4, 2023
Re-Visioning
See Through to Your Final Draft
a rejuvenating retreat 
at the Grand Marais Artist Colony

Lady Ref to be released in paperback 2026!
2023
Sept 17 Release party for Lady Ref
​Barnes & Noble Fairlawn, OH
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2022
Nov 10 North Suburban Center for the Arts
​Jan 5 Conversation with Janice Post-White
at Magers & Quinn
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2018 Red Wing Art History Club
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​2017
​Nov 17 Women Writing Out of War
at Magers & Quinn
March 18 Rosemount Book Festival

2016
November 17 Coffee Shop Northeast
​​October 28 for ASAC Conference
April 2 at History Center 

2015
April 22 at Subtext in St. Paul
Listen to Your Mother Release 

2014
April 12 at The Author's Studio in Edina

2011
May 13 Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts
February 16 at Inver Hills Book Store

2010
December 8 at Coyote Moon, St. Cloud
November 6 at Hudson Library, OH
September 25 at Barnes & Noble, St. Cloud
​August 14 at Northern Lights Books, Duluth
​May 1 at ASAC Conference in Boston
April 11 at Plymouth Library
February 12 at Birchbark Books, Minneapolis
January 17 at Cedar Rapids Library, IA

2009
December 13 at Barnes & Noble, Minnetonka
December 5 at First Congregational, Anoka November 29 at Borders, Minnetonka
​November 15 at Trident Books, Boston
November 14 at The Book Rack, Newburyport
​October 15 at Arlington Library, VA
October 12 at Wayzata Library
October 10 at Twin Cities Book Festival
September 24 at Mother Words at the Loft
​September 12 at Borders, Minnetonka
August 15 Fireside Book Shop, Chagrin Falls, OH
August 13 at Mac's Backs, Cleveland Heights, OH
August 11 at Aspinwall Books, Pittsburgh
July 12 at True Colors Bookstore, Minneapolis
June 19 at Sister Wolf Books, Park Rapids
June 3 at the Loft Literary Center
April 24 at Borders, Medina, OH

Panels & Interviews
*info on IJMS conference July 2026 coming soon*
2025 WIMA International 
75th Anniversary Conference

2024 AWP: Ghostwriting 101
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​2023 North Shore Writing Festival

​2013 American Adoption Conference
2012 AWP: Breaking out of the Box
2012 AWP: Barefoot and at the Writer's Desk
2011 AFIN Congress in Barcelona
April 24 Mothers Write Panel,
HCL Libraries
May 6 Build Yourself, Build Your Business
​Dec 5 Panel Discussion on Publication
2009 American Adoption Congress

Past Interviews
Nov 23 WTIP Radio Superior Reads
​January 3 Toginet Radio
January 29 CBS Cedar Rapids, IA 
May 24 Good Enough Moms Podcast
​​Feb 12 KYMN Radio
ArtZany! Radio for the Imagination
​November 22 107FM
Good Enough Moms Radio
November 13 1450AM Radio, MA
September 21 KARE11-TV interview
August 12  TV3​6 interview, OH
May 7 WCCO interview​
April 25 WKYC interview, OH​

At Hallett library in Crosby, MN

With readers after Becketwood reading

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Sharing some of WIMA founder Louise Scherbyn's nearly 300 photos included in Iron Horse Cowgirls

At 2018 talk about writing Lost & Found

May 16-18, 2022 Listening to Your Draft
a retreat at Grand Marais

Jan 8 P.E.O. Twin Cities
April 27 Adoption Network Cleveland
April 27 Modern Well
June 4-9
 Arrowhead Libraries
​March 23
Rosemount Book Festival
​January 29
Mayo Clinic
​​July 31
Great American Women Getaway
May 3
Adoptees Have Answers
​March 19
Writers' Festival and Bookfair
November 22
Hastings AAUW
May 12
Minneapolis Junior League Luncheon
Nov 15 
Concerned United Birthparents, Boston
Nov 5 
Concerned United Birthparents
Sept 12
Heart of the Matter Series
August 14
LifeSkills Center HS
August 13
​Medina Kiwanis