"In Dead Men Tapping, Kate Yeomans... recounts the collision and the ensuing federal trial with a sure sense of drama...

Her powerful account will remind readers of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm."

--The Boston Globe

Kate Yeomans grew up on the northeast coast of Massachusetts where she lives with her husband and two young sons. She holds a Coast Guard 100-ton captain’s license and works with her family’s deep-sea charter fishing and children's marine education program aboard their charter fishing boat. Kate has spent the past twelve years writing about the sea and the people who work and recreate upon it.

Her award-winning writing has appeared in Boston Magazine, Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, Chesapeake Bay Magazine, Commercial Fisheries News, the literary journal Creative Nonfiction, Cruising World, Sail, Professional Mariner, Offshore, Robb Report, Voyaging and others. She was the senior editor of National Fisherman, and now works as the Editor of Maptech's Embassy Cruising Guides for mariners. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of New Hampshire (1995) and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College (1999).

Her writing has received six awards from Boating Writers International, two from International Regional Magazine Association, and was a magazine finalist of Investigative Reporters and Editors. She regularly attends writing conferences including the Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference, Mid-Atlantic Creative Nonfiction Writer's Conference, and Breadloaf Writer's Conference. Kate is a member of the American Society of Journalist and Authors, Boating Writers International, and Northeast Charterboat Captains Association.

Kate spends most of her time discovering and writing about the best of boating and cruising along the East Coast from Canada to Alabama for Maptech's Cruising Guides. She is also at work on a book about New Bedford's working waterfront.