About

Katie McDougall, a native Nashvillian, first took Fiction Writing as a senior at Colorado College, where she earned her BA in English, and in the nearly thirty years since, she has been writing stories, crafting novels, scribbling in journals, and teaching, reading, studying, savoring literature. She earned her MFA in Fiction Writing at Colorado State University. Katie’s writing awards have included a four-week writing residency at the Kimmel•Harding•Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska, Association of Writers and Poet Intro. Journals Award Nomination for Colorado State University, and the Paul Gillette Writing Contest Finalist. After leaving the traditional classroom, she worked as the Master Teacher in Residence at The Island School in the Bahamas, as an outdoor educator, as a freelance writer, a tutor, and a bookseller at Nashville’s Parnassus Books. Additionally, she coordinated writing workshops, ranging from the annual one-day Nashville Young Writers Workshop to the week-long Sense of Place Workshop with Richard Bausch at Cape Eleuthera, Bahamas. In 2014, she joined forces with Susannah Felts to cofound The Porch Writers' Collective.