Kate Fox is a British poet, author and comedian,[3][4] who lives in North Yorkshire.

One of her first workshops included the then newly divorced comedian Sarah Millican, who Kate encouraged to pursue a career in stand-up.

[18] In 2014 she took up a full-time PhD studentship at the University of Leeds looking at class, gender, "Northernness" and stand-up performance and successfully defended her thesis in 2018.

[19][20] Her concept of "Humitas" in which humour and seriousness are enacted in the same frame at the same time, [21] has been cited as important to the field of Comedy Studies.

She has run poetry projects and workshops for organisations including First Story, Creative Partnerships, the Arvon Foundation and New Writing North.