Katherine began writing while working on commercial fishing vessels. She serves as the 2025-2027 Phippsburg, Maine Island Institute Fellow and continues to write about fish.

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

She is a worried, hermetic fish nerd.

Her current work examines the ecological collapse of the North Atlantic cod fishery, American conspiracy and fable. It has been supported by fellowships from Fulbright Canada and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

She is at work on her debut novel.