About

I am a nature writer, freelance science journalist, and occasional video producer and podcaster based in Raglan, New Zealand. I am a dual New Zealand and Australian citizen and have called both countries home.

I currently write features on science, nature, culture and food for New Zealand Geographic and other NZ magazines. 

I also write and report for international media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Scientific American, National Geographic News, the Guardian, the Observer, Discover Magazine, Hakai Magazine, Undark, and EOS.

I occasionally work as a video journalist, producing stories for the Washington Post and the BBC, among others.

I have reported as a video journalist from Africa and Asia and made films about forests in the Amazon, the Congo Basin and Borneo. I trained as a broadcast journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and worked as a news and current affairs producer at TVNZ.

My first book, a work of nature writing about my favourite fruit in the world, the feijoa, came out in March 2024. As an author I am represented by a different Kate Evans, who is a literary agent at Peters, Fraser + Dunlop in the UK. For book enquiries, contact her.

Send story ideas, interview requests or proposals to collaborate to me, at: kategevans@gmail.com