She was born Starlee Slabatkine, but soon the family shortened its surname to Kine, with her Jewish father changing his given name from Norman to Richard.
[2] Kine studied play and screen writing at New York University, and then began working for the This American Life radio show, initially as an intern.
[2] Starlee Kine worked as producer, writer, and/or narrator on This American Life, including on several episodes that initially aired between 1997 and 2013.
On March 4, 2016, she presented a sampling of her work and a teaser of a mystery-in-progress at the Monadnock Cultural Center in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
She was part of the cast of the first season of The Shivering Truth, an Adult Swim series created by Vernon Chatman.