by Katie | Apr 8, 2018 | Creative Writing, Essay, Family, Life is Long, Sports, Travel
Note: This is an original essay that I’m publishing for the first time here on my blog. This essay is dedicated to my father. My father is smart to bring a sleeping bag for me. He is correct to figure that his nine-year-old daughter doesn’t share his...
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 | 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...
