Katie Bannon
Instructor Consultant
About Katie
Katie Bannon is a Boston-based writer of memoir and personal essay. She works as a writing instructor at Emerson College, where she also earned her MFA in creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in NPR, Salon, Narratively, Brevity's Nonfiction Blog, Cognoscenti, and more. Her memoir was a finalist for the Permafrost Nonfiction Book Prize, a nominee for the Bill Knot Thesis Prize at Emerson College, and a winner of the Morton N. Cohen Creative Writing Award at Tufts University. She is a GrubStreet Memoir Incubator alum, as well as a former Muse and the Marketplace Teaching Scholar. She was a recipient of the Wesleyan Scholarship for the 2014 Wesleyan Writers Conference, and completed a residency at Lemon Tree House in 2016. You can find her online at www.katiekoppel.com.
