Katie's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, 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 earned a BA in Creative Writing and Marketing at New York University and an MA in Biography and Creative Nonfiction Writing at University of East Anglia, the UK’s top creative writing program. She was also a student in the Memoir Incubator at Grub Street in Boston, MA working on a memoir titled DO NOT GO HOME: WHY I KEPT TRAVELING DESPITE VIOLENCE, ILLNESS, AND REVOLUTION 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. She is represented by Reiko Davis at DeFiore and Company.