About Me
Wayfinding Mortality
Kate Baxter
A descendant of Scottish Mormon pioneers and other global explorers, Kate Baxter writes and thinks about what it means to be a modern LDS woman of faith, hopes, and doubts. While generally rooted in real life, her Mormon-adjacent writings range from personal essay and creative nonfiction to speculative fiction.
Wayfinding Mortality is a collection of snapshots of her life’s journey. The idea of navigating by faith toward celestial waypoints reflects her experiences more closely than a covenant path.
She’s kinda cranky that way.
Living in the intermountain west, you can find her on the back row of Relief Society, struggling to stay off her phone and Candy Crush. You can find her on Facebook and Instagram at Kate Baxter, Author or email her at “her firstname”@KateBaxterAuthor.com.
Latest Articles
Kate’s writing from around the internet and her blog
Feed My Sheep
Their mindset was that people make choices—chocolate bars over organic apples and mindless video games over basketball. The sense of nothing to be done was palpable.
Millennium Hotline: Perfected Bodies
You know what I need? A perfected body. I don’t know how you people get away with such shoddy workmanship. Just look at the hair on my legs. It’s giving cave woman wearing a pelt. And my underarms? Spider nests!
Where Babies Grow
It’s a teaching hospital, so I wasn’t surprised when a newbie med student did in the initial intake and participated in the exam along with the seasoned urogynecologist. After all the tests, when the med student came back in, I knew what she was going to say before...
Small Miracles
I have two dogs, Bodhi and Saul. They’re littermates, about four years old, and three-quarters mini-poodle, a quarter Australian Shepherd. Saul’s coat is the shaggy blue merle of a shepherd; Bodhi’s is the curly phantom black and gray of a poodle. They’re both leggy...
Entitled
I was buying groceries today when a random middle-aged white dude circled from the front of the cashier and slipped between me and the guy ahead of me gathering up his groceries. "That looks good," he said, pointing to my produce on the conveyer belt. "Thanks?" I...
Review: Pilot Program by Melissa Leilani Larson
On August 2, 2025, at The Compass Gallery in Provo, I saw a staged reading of Melissa Leilani Larson’s play, Pilot Program. What little I knew about the premise intrigued me: what if you were asked to participate in an LDS church-sponsored experiment to live plural...
Ministering
December 3, 2022 10:32 am Clara Allred Hi Kate! This is Clara Allred, your Ministering Supervisor. We just want to remind you to check in with your Ministering Sisters this holiday season. Thanks! 11:10 am ...
Multidimensional Progression
In the shower this morning, where I get my best thoughts, I was thinking about a friend who was distraught that her trans son was "no longer progressing." “Tell me more,” I said. “Well, she…he…can’t go to the temple.” Real anguish and tears. “But there is so much more...
Road to Emmaus
Sitting in Relief Society, the talk turns to Luke 24:13-35 and the two disciples who walked with Jesus after his resurrection and knew him not. “This doesn’t make sense,” says Sister Brown. “They really couldn’t be disciples if they didn’t recognize him!” “Yeah,” says...
Meet Kate
This will surprise no one but myself. Kate Baxter has been brewing in the back of my mind for a very long time. I’ve been a published author, editor, educator, and public speaker for decades now. I publish and edit in many different genres for wildly different...