Thank you for visiting my website.

I'm Katie Fallon, a writer and an Instructor in the English Department at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. (I'm on leave for the 2009-2010 school year to work on writing projects.)

I write primarily creative nonfiction including essays about nature and wildlife, meditations on place and home, and memoir pieces. I have a special interest in birds.

My essay "Lost" was recently nominated by the editors of The Fourth River for a Pushcart Prize. My work has also appeared in Fourth Genre, Ecotone, River Teeth, and elsewhere. Visit the link to the left for more information on my publications.

I am currently working on a nonfiction book called Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird. The book centers around the cerulean warbler, the fastest-declining warbler species in the United States. For more information, visit the "Current Projects" link.

At Virginia Tech I teach Creative Nonfiction, Introduction to Creative Writing, Introduction to English Studies, and First-year Composition. My composition classes explore the themes "Earth Sustainability" or "Writing Places." For more information about my teaching, visit the link to the left.

I am also the Education Director for the West Virginia Raptor Rehabilitation Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring injured and orphaned birds of prey to the wild and to providing environmental education programs to the public. For more information about the WVRRC, visit www.wvrrc.org.

I recently became Creative Nonfiction Editor of the online literary journal Connotation Press. Visit us and submit: www.connotationpress.com.

When I'm not writing, teaching, editing, or training birds of prey, I enjoy hiking, birding, canoeing, and belly dancing. If you want to know more about me, visit the link.