Katie's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, The Lily, Longreads, BuzzFeed, Lenny Letter, 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.