Writer's Biography

Katie Mehrer studied her craft with best-selling author and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, the late David Foster Wallace. She also studied with the late William Packard, founder and editor of New York Quarterly magazine. She went on to study acting with numerous teachers in New York, including actor Robert McCaskill, and to perform off-Broadway and as part of a comedic improv troupe. She uses her experience in scene study, her four years as a school teacher, and  her fifteen years as a freelance and ghostwriter to instruct students in her Santa Fe, New Mexico, writing workshops. Katie has been published extensively in books, magazines, and newspapers and ghostwrites and co-writes books with her clients.
 

Publication credits include:

• Slightly West Literary Magazine
• Local Flavor magazine
• Mother Earth News
• Christie's Great Estates
• The Journal Santa Fe
• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• Oakland, City of Lights
• Walnut Creek: the First Hundred Years.

Award Winning Work

• Local Flavor recently won the 2008 AIGA New Mexico Showdown award for one of Katie's
  restaurant articles, Luminaria. The award, from the American Institute of
  Graphic Arts, lauds the article's "sophisticated and edgy" design.
• Katie also won the 1999 Bronx New Writer's Award for a series of short stories entitled "Love at Worst."