The debut collection What Kind of Woman (Harper Perennial, 2020), by Kate Baer, debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Baer is an American poet. Her second collection, I Hope This Finds You Well (Harper Perennial, 2021), uses erasure poems made from messages she received online, and also became a New York Times bestseller. A third collection, And Yet (Harper Perennial, 2022), followed. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Literary Hub. She lives in Pennsylvania.
