About

Katie's first book, Equipoise, was shortlisted for the 2018 HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction and the 2022 ReLit Short Fiction Award. Stories within the collection won the 2020 Carter V. Cooper Emerging Writer Short Fiction Award as selected by Joyce Carol Oates (a second story was also shortlisted for the prize) and The New Quarterly’s 2018 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award, as well as having received publisher nominations for the 2019 Writers’ Trust Journey Prize and two National Magazine Awards.
 
She is currently working on her first novel for which she has received two Ontario Arts Council awards and two Canada Council for the Arts Awards. Individual chapters have been shortlisted for the Ex-Puritan Short Fiction Award, the Room Magazine Short Fiction Contest, and twice longlisted for the Masters Review Novel Excerpt Contest.
 
Her novella, "Fallowing," was recently shortlisted for the 2024 Malahat Review Novella Prize.
 
Katie is a graduate of the University of British Columbia MFA in Creative Writing program and the Humber College post-grad certificate in Creative Writing program.