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Short Bio

Kate Powers is a Boston-based author, special education teacher, and speaker specializing in emotional regulation, social-emotional learning (SEL), and neurodivergent support. She is the author of Stop Existing, Start Living and Stop Existing, Start Living: The Guided Journal Workbook, as well as Pip the Plover and the Dune Grass Path, the first book in the Voices of the Coast conservation picture book series. She is also the creator of the Little Dragon SEL children’s book series (coming 2027).

Extended Bio

Kate Powers is a Boston-based author, special education teacher, speaker, and creative entrepreneur focused on emotional regulation, social-emotional learning (SEL), neurodivergent support, and midlife reinvention. She has over a decade of experience in early childhood inclusion and trauma-informed education, combining research-based strategies with lived experience.

Kate is the author of Stop Existing, Start Living, a personal development book for women seeking clarity, boundaries, and sustainable change in midlife, along with its companion workbook Stop Existing, Start Living: The Guided Journal. In children’s literature, she is the author of Pip the Plover and the Dune Grass Path, the first book in the Voices of the Coast picture book series, introducing young readers to coastal conservation and environmental stewardship.

She is also developing the Little Dragon series (coming 2027), a social-emotional learning children’s book collection designed to help young children build emotional literacy, self-regulation skills, and resilience through story-based tools for parents and educators.

As a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and single mother raising neurodivergent children, Kate’s work is grounded in autism awareness, nervous-system science, and inclusive education practices. She speaks on emotional regulation in classrooms, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), midlife rebuilding, and using creativity as a regulation tool.

Kate lives and works in Boston, where she continues teaching while building a sustainable author platform centered on education, emotional wellness, and conservation literacy.

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