Author Bio

Katie R. McKay is a first-year MFA candidate in New York University's Graduate Writing Program, where she is a member of the Nonfiction cohort. Her work has appeared in 34th Parallel Magazine, the Washington Square Review, and the New Limestone Review. It has also been shortlisted for the 2024 Disquiet Prize in Nonfiction.

A later-in-life lesbian motivated to come out after her father's death, Katie writes about sex, queerness, identity, trauma, grief, and the body. She is also a licensed attorney and works in a trauma-informed practice representing survivors in civil cases across New York State.

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Katie holds a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School. She also has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Dartmouth College, where she both studied creative writing and wrote an academic thesis (on Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt), and served as the Editor-in-Chief of The Dartmouth student newspaper.

She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, with her cat, Oliver.