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Katherine Lanpher is a writer and broadcaster who now makes her home in New York. She is the author of “Leap Days: Chronicles of a Midlife Move,’’ published by Springboard Press. A contributing editor at More magazine, she hosts Moretime, a radio companion to More heard each week on Take Five, Channel 155 on XM Satellite Radio.
She is also the host of “Upstairs at the Square,’’ a monthly live event series sponsored by Barnes and Noble and taped for the web at their flagship store in Manhattan’s Union Square. A mix of musicians and authors, the show has featured artists as varied as director Dito Montiel (“A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints”), writer Elizabeth Gilbert (“Eat, Pray, Love’’) and composter/singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik (“Spring Awakening’’). (To listen to previous shows, go to bn.com/upstairs)
Until fall 2005, she was the co-host of “The Al Franken Show’’ as heard on Air America Radio and seen on the Sundance Channel. She moved to Manhattan from Minnesota to join the show on Leap Day 2004.
She is the former host of Minnesota Public Radio’s “Midmorning’’ show and its “Talking Volumes’’ series; she also hosted an evening talk show on KSTP-AM 1500, then the Rush Limbaugh flagship in Minneapolis-St. Paul. She was a reporter at the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press for 16 years, the last six as a columnist. She graduated with a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and with a master’s degree in American Cultural History from the University of Chicago.
Her writing has appeared on both the op-ed and book review pages of the New York Times and she is a guest host for The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC public radio.
“Leap Days’’ is her first book.
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Copyright 2006 Katherine Lanpher. All images used by permission.