Katie Higinbotham

Katie Higinbotham Associate Director of the Writing Program

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Katie Higinbotham is the Associate Director of the Writing Program and an instructor for the English Department. She earned her MFA from Western Washington University, where she won the Outstanding Graduate Writer Award for her multi-genre work in nonfiction and poetry. As a Linfield creative writing alumna, Katie enjoys working with the Writing Center staff, as well as student writers in Inquiry Seminar, creative writing and literature. She is also the assistant coach for Wildcat Cross Country. Her latest areas of interest include writing the natural world, writing from an athlete's perspective, and listening for stories of activism in music. Katie's creative work has appeared in The Offing, Otherwise Collective, Hobart and elsewhere.

Education

BA, creative writing, Linfield University
MFA, creative writing, Western Washington University

Academic interests

Creative nonfiction
Poetry
Cross-genre
Musical activism
Pop culture

Publications

“Looking for Neowise,” Rappahannock Review, Issue 8.3 “Dark as in Lunar Silence,” The Offing: Enumerate, winter 2022 “Love Letters into the Void,” Windward Review, Issue 19, forthcoming 2023

You can find Katie's publications at https://katiehiginbotham.wixsite.com/writing/writing