BOOKS:
Katie is the author of two nonfiction books:
VULTURE: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird (Brandeis University Press 2020: University Press of New England 2017).
CERULEAN BLUES: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird (Ruka Press 2011).
She is the co-author (with Bill Wilson) of two books for children:
Look, See the Farm (Hatherleigh Press, 2018).
Look, See the Bird (Hatherleigh Press, 2017).
For more information about all of these books, please click here.
ANTHOLOGIES:
Katie’s work has appeared in several anthologies and collections, including:
When Birds Are Near: Dispatches from Contemporary Writers (Cornell University Press, 2020).
Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene (West Virginia University Press, 2019).
Reading Shaver’s Creek: Ecological Reflections from an Appalachian Forest (Penn State University Press, 2018).
Appalachia’s Last Stand (Wind, 2009).
BWD MAGAZINE:
Since 2020, Katie has written several features and the column WINGBEATS for BWD Magazine, which is a gorgeous, full-sized, bimonthly magazine–a reimagining of the beloved Bird Watcher’s Digest magazine.
Feature Articles:
“A Condor by Any Other Name” (Nov/Dec 2023)
“Vultures Are Not the Enemy” (July/Aug 2020)
WINGBEATS Columns:
“Cryptids & Mystery Birds” (Sept/Oct 2025)
“The Frugivore Behind the Mask” (May/June 2025)
“An Eagle Mystery” (Jan/Feb 2025)
“River Rescue” (Sept/Oct 2024)
“Rain Song” (May/June 2024)
“Ghost Owl” (Jan/Feb 2024)
“I Never Newt They Would Eat That!” (Sept/Oct 2023)
“Poetry, Parasites, & Tapioca Pearls” (May/June 2023)
“Raising Swifts” (Jan/Feb 2023)
“Friendly Competitions Unite Birders” (Sept/Oct 2022)
“Winter Owling” (Jan/Feb 2022)
“Saving the Cerulean Warbler” (July/Aug 2021)
“Backyard Hawks” (Jan/Feb 2021)
LITERARY JOURNALS & PERIODICALS:
Katie’s personal essays and literary nonfiction appeared in a variety of print and online literary journals before she turned her attention to shiny magazines and books. Thank you to the following publications (in no particular order) for printing Katie’s work:
Fourth Genre
River Teeth
Still
Terrain
Fourth River
Ecotone
Bark Magazine
Isotope
Blueline
Rivendell
The Tusculum Review
the minnesota review
Appalachian Heritage
New River Gorge Adventure Guide
Now & Then
Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel
Touchstone Magazine
CREEK JOURNALS:
Check out this amazing longterm reflections project at Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center in central PA. Katie participated in 2017. You can read her work and the work of other written and visual artists here.