Kate Cooper Austin (July 25, 1864 – October 28, 1902)[1] was an American journalist and advocate of feminist and anarchist causes.

Born Catherine Cooper on July 25, 1864, in LaSalle County, Illinois,[1] Austin moved with her family to Hook's Point, Iowa, when she was six.

[1] It was in Hook's Point, Iowa, that she married a young farmer, Sam Austin, in August 1883.

She was too much the former to join the organized women's movements of her day, and too much the latter to ally with mainline political anarchists—most of them men—whose devotion to liberty often stopped short of women's liberation.A member of the American Press Writers' Association, Austin wrote for many working-class and radical newspapers.

[7] In 1897 and 1899, Emma Goldman visited Austin at her home in Caplinger Mills, Missouri, where she gave several well-attended lectures.