Events

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Photo credit: Ruth Jn. Baptiste, Boston Collegiate

Katie has taught elementary, middle, high-school, and college students. She loves meeting new people and talking about writing and books. An author visit with Katie might include a Zoom chat with a book club, trying on Tanzanian clothes and practicing Swahili with younger readers, a slide show depicting the Tanzanian story-behind-the-story for a middle school audience, or an interactive lecture for university students on the craft of writing memoir or young-adult fiction.  To contact Katie about organizing an event for your group or organization, please send an email.

Events

  • May 13, 2022, School author visit with students from Boston Collegiate Charter School, Boston, MA.
  • May 2, 2022, School author visit with students from Cape Elizabeth Middle School, Cape Elizabeth, ME.
  • April 6, 2021, School author visit with students from Reed Academy, Framingham, MA.
  • March, 2021, Judge for Mills College graduate Marion Hood Boess Haworth Prize in Fiction for Children and Young Adults and graduate Melody Clarke Teppola Creative Nonfiction Prize.
  • March 5, 2021, Author visit with Tvisha and Friends Book Club, Boston, MA.
  • May 23, 2019, Invited lecture to graduate education class in young adult fiction (ERL 518), University of Maine, Orono, ME.
  • May 1, 2018, Author visit to CORE Program, Orono High School, Orono, ME.
  • March, 2018, Judge for Mills College graduate and undergraduate Best Young-Adult Fiction Writing Award.
  • April 3, 2017, Radio Interview about Katie’s Washington Post article on youth soccer in Costa Rica, WBAL News Now.
  • February 21-April 4, 2017, Writing Monteverde’s Stories: a six-week seminar in creative non-fiction, The Monteverde Institute, Monteverde, Costa Rica, Time: Tuesdays, 4:30-6:30.
  • September 1, 2016, Author visit to Monteverde Friends School, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
  • April 9, 2016, Cape Author Fest, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Time: 10am-2pm.
  • April 8, 2016, Author visit to Cape Elizabeth Middle School, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Time: full school day.
  • April 7, 2016, Author visit to Boston Collegiate Charter School 5th grade, Boston, Massachusetts, Time: full school day.
  • September 8, 2015, Author Visit to Reeds Brook Middle School, Hampden, Maine, Time: 9:30-11:30.
  • July 7, 2015, Author Visit to University of Maine Young Authors Camp and the National Writing Project Teacher Summer Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, Time: 10:30-1:00.
  • June 18, 2015, Reading and Slideshow about memoir based in India, Harvest Moon Deli, Orono Artsapalooza, Maine, Time: 8-8:40 p.m.
  • April 11, 2015, Cape Author Fest, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Time: 10am-2pm.
  • April 10, 2015, Author visit to Cape Elizabeth Middle School, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Time: full school day.
  • April 9, 2015, Author visit to Boston Collegiate Charter School, Boston, Massachusetts, Time: full school day.
  • April 18, 2014, Author visit to Winslow Junior High School, Winslow, Maine, Time: full school day.
  • March 6, 2014, Author visit to Asa Adams Elementary School (KG classes), Orono, Maine, Time: morning.
  • February 7, 2014, Author visit at Old Town Elementary School (5th and 2nd grade), Old Town, Maine, Time: morning.
  • January 28, 2014, Talk sponsored by the University of Maine English Department: “Writing Memoir: Finding Your Story, Knowing Where to Begin, and Other Questions of Craft,” University of Maine, Orono, Time: 2-3:30.
  • November 21, 2013, Q&A with Thursday Thoughtful Readers, Orono Public Library, Orono, ME, Time: 3:30 p.m.
  • October 7, 2013, Alpha Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma (an international  group of women educators), First United Methodist Church, Bangor, ME, Time: 5:00 p.m.
  • October 5, 2013, Bangor Book Festival, Bangor Public Library, Bangor, ME, Time: TBA.
  • October 4, 2013, School Visit, Doughty Middle School, Bangor, ME, Time: 12:30-1:40.
  • October 4, 2013, School Visit, Cohen Middle School, Bangor, ME, Time: 9:30-10:30.
  • September 18, 2013, Skype Conversation with Friends Select Middle School, 7th and 8th grade assembly, Philadelphia, PA, Time: 10:30 a.m.
  • August 22, 2013, Reading and discussion of A Girl Called Problem at Auntie’s Bookstore, Spokane, WA, 7:00 p.m.
  • July 13, 2013, Books in Boothbay Fair, Boothbay Railway Village, 12:30-3:30.
  • July 9, 2013, Presentations to Maine Young Authors and the Maine Writing Project, University of Maine, Orono, all morning.
  • May 30, 2013, Reading and discussion of A Girl Called Problem for mixed-age audience, Orono Public Library, Orono, ME, Time: 6:30 p.m.
  • May 17, 2013, Reading and discussion of A Girl Called Problem for middle-school-aged readers, Bangor Public Library, Bangor, ME, 3:30-4:15.
  • March, 2013, Judge for Mills College graduate and undergraduate young-adult writing award.
  • April 30, 2012, Reading and featured speaker at the annual meeting of the Friends of the Orono Public Library, Orono Public Library, Orono, Maine
  • October 1, 2011, Facilitator of the Bangor Book Festival‘s Memoirist Panel–FINDING HOME: WRITING MEMOIR — Reading & Discussion with Melissa Coleman, Susan Conley & Caitlin Shetterly

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