Katie Higinbotham

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Katie Higinbothom Associate Director of the Writing Program

TJ Day Hall 315

Katie Higinbotham earned her MFA from Western Washington University, where she was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Writer Award for her multi-genre work in nonfiction and poetry. Katie loves working with beginning writers at Linfield in both Inquiry Seminar (INQS) and literature courses. Her latest concentrations include women writing nature and how we tell stories of activism through music. Her most recent hybrid work and essays appeared in the Offing and the Rappahannock Review.

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