Kathryn Mitchell "Kate" Lucchese 

Known to novel readers as “Cate DeLuca” and to her students as "Dr. K-Z," Kate Lucchese is a classicist, world traveler and cultural geographer who writes.

“Cate” is currently recording the adventures of plucky Tanaquil Greenough, who, though “never ravished by a shape-shifting warlock” came awfully close to it in The Castellina Curse, recently published by DLG Publishing Partners, LLC.

In the same Urban Fantasy Romance series, Deep Scansion and Place of Sacrifice will follow Tanny as she negotiates parenthood, tenure battles, erupting volcanoes, old flames and deadly plagues.

About to publish in Japanese Horai Dream: The Keicho Mission of Masamune Date a non-fiction account of the Keicho Mission of Date Masamune. Working with the University of Michigan Press to publish the original English version, under the title Samurai in St. Peter’s: The Keicho Mission of Masamune Date.

Kate will soon return to work on Ourania, Worthy Daughter of Herodes a series of three historical novels set in the reign of mad emperor Commodus, following the adventures of someone she found in a catacomb near the Via Appia.

Riparia Publications: "Writing From Along the Margins"

"Riparia" is Latin for "things to do with riverbanks," and the kanji characters in red on the logo can be pronounced "kawagishi" meaning "riverbank."  As a woman academic and unclassifiable writer, I am pushed to the margins, and celebrate all Riverbankers getting on with the business of life as the river of history flows by.

Publications

Finds & Keepers Archaeological Adventure Series: The Castellina Curse published April 2021 by DLG Publishing Partners, LLC. In the same series, forthcoming later in 2021: Deep Scansion and Place of Sacrifice.

Forthcoming 2021 from Sojinsha Joint-Stock Enterprises, NJK Kotobuki 1-3-4, Taito-ku, Tokyo: 鳳来の夢、伊達政宗の慶長遣欧使節Horai no yume: Date Masamune no Keicho Ken-oh shisetu (“Horai Dream: The Keicho Mission of Masamune Date”).

"On the Shores of Sendai-Wan" in youarehere, the journal of creative geography, University of Arizona, 2009

"Landscape Synchesis: A Demeter Temple in Latium," Chapter 9 of Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia, University of Texas Press 2009

Folk Like Me: The Read-Aloud Book of Saints, Morehouse Publishing 2008

Education

Ph.D. in Cultural Geography December 2000 Texas A&M University (TAMU),  Dissertation: "Meaning Through Annihiliation: The Patrimony Bombings of 1993"

M. S. in Geography December 1993 Texas A&M University, Thesis: "The Apotheosis of the Tree: Sanctuary from Grove to Temple"

A.B. cum laude in Classical Languages June 1979 U. C. Berkeley

Graduate of Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA, June 1974.