Kate Sweeney is a writer and podcast producer. She was a reporter, producer, and host at 90.1 WABE, Atlanta's NPR station, for more than a decade, and her radio stories have appeared on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, and The World. Sweeney's work has appeared in Full Grown People, Oxford American, Atlanta magazine, Utne Reader, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Her first book, "American Afterlife," was published in 2014.