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About Katie

When Katie Bayerl isn’t penning stories, she coaches writers and nonprofits to tell theirs. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and degrees in education from Brown and Tufts. A former high school teacher, Katie has taught numerous fiction workshops at GrubStreet and in schools and community settings. Her fiction has earned several honors, including the PEN New England Children’s Book Discovery Award and the Lois Lowry Fellowship. Katie’s debut young adult novel, A Psalm for Lost Girls, was named a must read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and Texas Library Association, and her newest release, What Comes After, is a Paste Magazine Most Anticipated Young Adult Novel of 2025.