Born and raised in the Chicagoland area, Katie completed her BA in English at Hope College in Holland, Michigan and earned her MFA in creative writing at Roosevelt University in Chicago.

Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Albion Review, After Hours Press, From the Depths (Haunted Waters Press), The Kelsey Review, Michigan Avenue Review, Our Time is Now, Outside In Magazine, Philadelphia Stories, Temenos, and Yellow Medicine Review. Her work also appears in the anthology Crossing Lines by Main Street Rag, and her debut chapbook, Prague in Synthetics, was published in February 2015 by Finishing Line Press. The poems contained in this chapbook are largely inspired by her experience with Western Michigan University's Prague Summer Program in 2005, for which she was a John Woods Scholarship Recipient.

Katie has had the privilege of honing her craft under the guidance of writers including Jack Ridl, Rhoda Janzen, Heather Sellers, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Peter Cooley, Janet Wondra, and Frank Rogaczewski.

She lives in South Jersey where she is a Lecturer in Writing Arts at Rowan University in Glassboro. Katie also currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Glassworks literary magazine.