Author Bio

Katie R. McKay is an MFA candidate in New York University's Graduate Creative Writing Program, where she is a member of the Nonfiction cohort. 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.

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 in NYC. She will be teaching undergradate Introduction to Prose & Poetry at NYU in Spring 2025.​

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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 girlfriend and their cat, Oliver.