Katie's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, The Lily, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Entropy, Health, Brevity, BUST, Lifehacker, Business Insider, The Independent, Women's Health, Hippocampus, and elsewhere. She was a student at New York University and in the Memoir Incubator at Grub Street in Boston, MA working on a memoir titled PLAGUED about a gap year spent traveling alone during which she contracted the plague bacteria, was raped by a stranger in an alleyway, and found herself in Cairo during the Egyptian Revolution. Katie is earning an MA in Biography/Creative Nonfiction Writing at University of East Anglia, and lives in London.