Kate Kellaway (born 15 July 1957)^{[citation needed]} is an English journalist and literary critic who writes for The Observer.

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The daughter of the Australians Bill and Deborah Kellaway,^[1] she is the older sister of the journalist Lucy Kellaway. Both siblings were educated at the Camden School for Girls, where their mother was a teacher,^[2] and at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read English.^[3]

Following a period teaching in Zimbabwe between 1982 and 1986,^[4] she began her career in journalism at the Literary Review^[5] and became deputy to then editor Auberon Waugh around 1987.^[6]

Kellaway later joined The Observer, where her posts have included features writer, deputy literary editor, deputy theatre critic and children's books editor.^[7] While The Observer's poetry editor,^[8] Kellaway was one of the five judges for the Booker Prize in 1995.^[9]

Kellaway is married and has four sons and two step-sons.^[10]