Katherine began writing while working on Bering Sea commercial fishing vessels.

Her work examines rural labor, marine ecosystems in flux and the residual formation of ideologies–she is specifically interested in the aftermath of resource depletion in rural extractive economies.

She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Virginia, a BS in Biology from the University of New Hampshire and is a Fulbright recipient. She currently resides in Newfoundland and Labrador, in the traditional territories of the Beothuk, Mi'kmaq, Innu, and Inuit. She is studying the Northwest Atlantic cod fishery.

Publications

“How to Bury a Peacock” | Forthcoming in Principal Foundation’s Money Chronicles Anthology — 2025

“The Woman in the Factory Who Will Cut the Fish” | Forthcoming in Post Road: 43 — 2025

“Those I Have Never Known” | Conjunctions: 83 — 2024

“The Other Town” | Raritan: Volume XLIV, No. 1 — 2024

“The Cod Fisherman” | Conjunctions: 82 — 2024

“Good Daughter” | The Masters Review Anthology XII — 2024

“Not God” | Principal Foundation’s Money Chronicles Anthology — 2023

“B.I.W. Boys” | The Masters Review — 2023

Lit Hub Contributor — 2023

“What Have Subsidies Got To Do With It” | USRENEW News – 2021

“Aid to Black Farmers Sparks Backlash” | USRENEW News – 2021

Fishing Boat Dispatch: Blog | USRENEW News –2021

“Living Remote in the Lost Waters of Alaska” | Pellicola Magazine – 2018