Katherine Taylor

Teaches at Writing Pad

Katherine is the author of the novels Valley Fever (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2015) and Rules for Saying Goodbye (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2007). Her stories and essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA. The Southwest Review, and Ploughshares, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Elle, Town & Country, among other publications. She has won a Pushcart Prize and the McGinnis Ritchie Award for Fiction. She has a B.A. from University of Southern California and a master's degree from Columbia University, where she was a Graduate Writing Fellow.