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.

Her writing is published or forthcoming in Conjunctions, The Missouri Review, Raritan, Post Road and other spots.

She is a worried, hermetic fish nerd.

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 at work on two novels. One is about codfish and fable. The other is about money as fable with just a whiff of fish.