Katie is a Brooklyn-based writer obsessed with writing about sisters, secrets and shame. She holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions, was on the 2022 Wigleaf Top 50 longlist and has received support from Sirenland Writers Conference, Tin House Summer Workshop and Aspen Summer Words. She works in brand partnerships at The Meteor, a media company dedicated to advancing gender and racial equity, and lives with her dog, Eliza Hamilton.

She is working on a novel that explores the consequences of childhood actions and the cost of suppression in the aftermath of a secret kept for nearly 30 years.

 
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WRITING

“Silent All These Years”No Tokens Journal December 2022

“House of Wax”TriQuarterly January 2022

Dandelion Soup”—JMWW January 2022

“The Extraction”Peauxdunque Review November 2021 (nominated for The 2022 Pushcart Prize)

The Jellyfish Hospital”—Pithead Chapel February 2021

Marked” —trampset January 2021 (nominated for 2022 Best Small Fictions)

 
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AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2022 Pushcart Prize nomination by Peauxdunque Review for “The Extraction”

2022 Best Small Fictions nomination by trampset for “Marked”

2022 Wigleaf Top 50 (Longlist) for “Marked”

2020 Words & Music Writers Competition (1st place, short story)

2020 Tin House Summer Workshop

2019-2021 Provost & University Scholarships, The New School

2015-2022 Sirenland Writers Conference; Resident-2022

2015-2016 Aspen Summer Words

 Represented by Nicki Richesin, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency