Katherine (Kitty) Stapp is the author of Some Fine Day, a science fiction novel about climate change (Skyscape, 2014). Based in New York City, she is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism. She has nearly two decades of experience as a writer and editor covering development, environment and human rights issues at the Inter Press Service United Nations bureau in New York, including production of the TerraViva newspaper at the Rio+20 conference and other major international gatherings.
Her work has been cited twice by Project Censored. In 2001, she was awarded the New Horizons in Science Fellowship, a Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) grant. She has written numerous stories on health and environmental issues, including a six-part series for IPS on Gender, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights that examined issues such as equal access to care, gender differences in ARV treatment, the advent of rapid testing techniques, and NGO strategies to increase AIDS funding.