Kate is full time Managing Editor of Red Hen Press. She is an editor, writer, literary citizen and arts manager. She has been a visiting poet at Pomona College and has taught in the Graduate Humanities Program at Mt. St. Marys. She teaches publishing courses at Antioch University Los Angeles. She speaks at universities, writing conferences, low residency and residency MFA programs on independent publishing, editing and publicity.
In 1994 Kate Gale founded Red Hen Press. The press was started as a collective and began to publish Kate and her fellow writers: Marlene Joyce Pearson, Ricardo Means Ybarra, Benjamin Saltman and Angela Ball. Later the press was reorganized as a non-profit 501(c)3 and began to build an active writing community in Los Angeles.
In the wake of the closing of Black Sparrow Press and Sun and Moon, Red Hen Press became one of the largest independent presses in Southern California. They publish twenty titles a year of poetry, literary fiction and non-fiction. Red Hen Press established a Writing in the Schools Program funded by the city, the county, 
Ahmanson, Dwight Stuart Foundation, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Their reading series at the Ruskin Art Club and the Geffen Playhouse hosts such writers as Carolyn See, John Rechy, C.D. Wright, Li-Young Lee, Joy Harjo, Chris Abani, Al Young, Robert Scheer, Paul Cummins, and Marvin Bell. Building community in Los Angeles allowed Kate to live life as a literary provaceteur, hosting and creating change in literary life.
Kate lives in Los Angeles with her husband Mark E. Cull and one of their children.
Boards Serving/Served On:
PEN USA 2005-2006, President
Claremont Graduate University School of Arts and Humanities, Board Member
Kingsley Tufts Committee, Co-Chair
American Composers Forum Los Angeles, President
A Room of Her Own, Board Member
Poetry Society of America, Board Member
Red Hen Press, Managing Editor
Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute – New Media Project: Members