Katie will be one of the featured writers at the Caffeine Corridor poetry series reading on Friday, May 8 at 7 p.m. at {9} The Gallery, 1229 Grand Ave. in Phoenix.
Katie is super-excited to emcee this reading back in Minnesota, featuring fantastic writers of color from the Twin Cities and hosted by the amazing Gazillion Voices. Reading will take place on Wednesday, April 8 at 7 pm at the Aster Cafe in Minneapolis. For more…
Katie has a piece coming out in Poetry and Prose For the Phoenix Art Museum, a chapbook by Four Chambers Press. As part of this, she will take part in two readings with other writers from the chapbook at Phoenix Art Museum. The dates will…
Katie is thrilled to announce that a panel she organized on representations of disability in literature and popular culture has been accepted into the 2015 AWP Conference, which will take place in April in Minneapolis. Titled, “It’s Sad When Batman Needs a Cane: Disability in…
Katie has been invited to read on Wednesday, April 15th, 2015 for the awesome series “Tempe Poetry in April,” curated by Arizona poet and artist Catherine Hammond. The series involves a public reading at Tempe Center for the Arts, followed by a stimulating conversation with Hammond….
Katie took part in the Adoption Initiative’s Eighth Annual Biennial Adoption Conference, which took place May 29 – 31 at St. John’s University in Queens, NY. Presented in collaboration with Montclair State University, the theme of this year’s conference was “Sleeping Giants in Adoption: Power,…
On Wednesday, February 26 Katie took part in “MSP at AWP,” a reading at LUCID Lounge in Seattle’s University District. This event celebrated the literary talent of Minneapolis/Saint Paul as the Twin Cities prepares to host the 2015 AWP Conference. Sponsoring organizations included Rain Taxi, The…
On November 16, Katie took part in a panel on Performance at the first Adoption Policy and Reform Collaborative Conference. Fellow artists on the panel included Chad Goller-Sojourner, Marissa Lichwick, and Kurt Blomberg. The conference brought together well over 100 participants from across the adoption…
Katie’s essay “On Passing, Adoption, and Disability” is now available through the November issue of Gazillion Voices magazine. Mu Performing Arts has generously offered to sponsor the page in order to make the content available for free. In December the essay will be republished via…
Katie’s poem “Three Line Bio” has been published in the anthology The Heart of All That Is: Reflections on Home, edited by Jim Perlman, Deborah Cooper, Mara Hart, and Pamela Mittlefehldt, through Minnesota-based Holy Cow! Press. Other writers included in the collection are Molly Sutton…