by Katie | Mar 4, 2018 | Creative Writing, Disability, Essay, Family
I’m emergency-homeschooling my kids. I’m emergency-homeschooling my kids because twice now the disability services in the schools they were enrolled in failed us. This fall, we will enroll them in a third school, and try again. I never (not really) write...
by Katie | Feb 3, 2018 | Creative Writing, Disability
Update 3/26/2018: Fallout Girl is available for Pre-Order now. Here it is on Amazon: bit.ly/falloutgirl. I have a new novel coming out in May, FALLOUT GIRL, and like my last novella (or short novel, whatever), HOW TO STAY, it deals with mental illness head-on. Thank...
by Katie | Jan 9, 2018 | Creative Writing, Essay, Life is Long, Travel
[Alt Text for banner image: A sunset photograph of Camden Yards from the 18th Floor of an adjacent hotel.] I lived in Baltimore many years ago. I earned my master’s in creative writing here. When I was riding in from BWI, my Lyft driver, who is relatively new to...
by Katie | Jan 6, 2018 | Authors We Love
Note to readers: I’m not even going to apologize for not blogging in like, months. I’m blogging now, and blogging apologias are for suckers. I’m traveling again. I like traveling, usually. It’s harder, though, now that we’ve started...
by Katie | Nov 20, 2017 | Creative Writing, Hollywood Lights Series, My Books
Me, along with Kristy and Susan (holding our books) and two members of BLOOM, the Tall Poppy Writers book club on Facebook. Last Thursday, November 16, I had a book event at Flyleaf Books here in Chapel Hill with fellow Tall Poppy Writers Kristy Woodson Harvey and...
by Katie | Nov 3, 2017 | Creative Writing
I’m writing a new weekly column over on the Tall Poppy Writers blog. Here’s the first installment. Check it out every Thursday ad infinitum. Source: Writing Isn’t Sexy: Dog Poop and All | Tall Poppy Writers This morning, I got the kids ready for their...
by Katie | Oct 19, 2017 | Life is Long
We have a lot of really large vultures in our neighborhood. They hang out, like a feathery biker gang, cool in their black coats, eyeing you as you go by, larger than you’d expect. We’re not a neighborhood full of forests, or of deer or other animals, and...
by Katie | Oct 16, 2017 | Disability, Freelance Academic, My Books, Social Justice
Three years ago, I wrote a column for a magazine about hiding my psychiatric disability because I feared for my job in higher education. Three years later, disability, in particular, mental health, became a regular beat of mine, and I’ve written essays and...
by Katie | Oct 10, 2017 | Disability, Giveaway, My Books
Reblogged from Blue Crow Publishing regarding my latest release coming Monday, October 16. To enter to win a copy, visit the original post for details: Blue Crow Publishing (and our imprint Raven Books) is giving away two uncorrected proof copies of LIFE OF THE MIND...
