Author Bio

Katie R. McKay is a writer, memoirist, and practicing attorney based in New York City. Her work has appeared in 34th Parallel Magazine, the Washington Square Review, the New Limestone Review, and, most recently, Vernacular; and was shortlisted for Disquiet's 2024 Nonfiction Prize. She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU.

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 who represents survivors of harassment, trauma, stalking, and violence at C.A. Goldberg, PLLC.​

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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 studied creative writing and wrote an academic thesis (on gender roles and consumer culture in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt), and served as the Editor-in-Chief of The Dartmouth, the independent, daily student newspaper.

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