Blood Strangers:

In addition to a Pushcart nomination from the Dos Passos Review, Katherine has been a Graywolf Press Finalist for the Nonfiction Prize, a New Rivers Press MVP Finalist, and an honorable mention for the Flashquake Micro-flash Fiction Contest. She is the author of Blood Strangers: A Memoir (Heyday Books), a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist. She won a Cultural Diversity award from the Stonecoast MFA program and a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She also studied at the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-MFA, and the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. 

Her writing has also appeared in Under the Sun, Brain Child, Sojourn, upstreet, the L.A. Times, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Poets & Writers, Literary Mama, The Writer, Unbound Press, So to Speak, Hip Mama, Skirt!, Teacher Magazine, BARK Magazine, Chicago Tribune, KQED Radio (PBS), and elsewhere. 

Katherine has taught English and creative writing, edited professionally, reviewed books for the San Francisco Chronicle and participated in the Litquake Festival, West Hollywood Book Fair, and Bay Area Book Festival. She has an MFA in creative writing and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area where she enjoys hiking, photographing city street scenes, and family get-togethers. 

Blood Strangers: A Memoir, a captivating, multi-generational story of an alternative family, was published by Heyday Books. It was a LAMBDA Literary Award Finalist, and an essay excerpt was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the Dos Passos Review. 

The novel manuscript, Whether They Be, is a semi-finalist in the 2022 Simon & Schuster Books Like Us contest, 2022 San Francisco Writers’ Conference Finalist, and a 2021 semi-finalist in the James Jones First Novel Fellowship!