Katie is a freelance writer who began her career ​in New York City, where she lived for 15 years before several farmsitting stints inspired her to move to a historical cottage on a farm in New Jersey. She's penned features for Kinfolk, Vanity Fair, Vulture, and more while also editing and copywriting for People, Inc., Hearst, and other leading publishers. She loves to write about film and television, books, history, death awareness, and art.

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She balances freelance work with a role as a bookseller and social media manager at an independent bookshop, and is an agented emerging author working on a novel. Her monthly Substack series Dog-Eared and Premiered compiles her favorite recent reads and watches.

 

Katie is also a devoted cemetery historian—she's a member of the Association for Gravestone Studies, and is an alumni of a Rutgers gravestone preservation course and a letter carving in slate intensive at Rutland, VT’s Carving Studio & Sculpture Center. New Jersey Monthly Magazine profiled Katie and her cemetery work for their October 2024 issue, Kinfolk invited her to write about headstone recipe epitaphs in their 53rd issue, and she wrote about her first-hand experience with death for Good Housekeeping. She hosts a regular Substack cemetery series called Sunday Pastries With the Dead.

 

Katie's last name is pronounced Kal-ew-tee (it's her most-asked question, next to "What do your tattoos mean?")