Kate Barnow is an American television writer, best known for her work on the HBO vampire series True Blood. She often works on projects with her writing partner Elisabeth R. Finch.
Barnow began her television career working as an assistant to the executive producers on the sitcom Will & Grace. She then worked as a script co-ordinator on the short-lived Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. She, along with Finch, were then hired as writer's assistants on True Blood for the second season. Her writing debut came with the tenth episode of that season.