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The Official Bio
When Katie Bayerl isn’t penning stories, she can be found dancing, writing about social causes, or herding a trio of (mostly well-behaved) cats. Katie holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is on the creative writing faculty at Grub Street. Her previous young adult novel, A Psalm for Lost Girls, earned two starred reviews and was a Texas Library Association selection, among other honors. Katie lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Long-Winded Version
Katie fell in love with books before she can remember and with teaching when she was just a teen. The writing books for teens part came a bit later. She jumped right in and hasn’t looked back.
Katie has degrees in education from Brown University, secondary teaching from Tufts University, and writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has worked as editor of a teen-generated magazine, led the communications efforts of a Boston nonprofit, and helped hundreds of writers and nonprofit leaders tell their stories. She currently teaches creative writing courses at GrubStreet. Katie is a winner of the PEN New England/Susan P Bloom Children’s Book Discovery Award and was honored to serve as the 2017 Michael L Printz Author in Residence (Topeka, KS) and the 2017 Lois Lowry Fellow (West Roxbury, MA). Her debut young adult novel, A Psalm for Lost Girls (Putnam/Penguin Random 2017) received two starred reviews and was named a top pick from Amazon, Book-a-Million, and the Romantic Times, a “can’t miss” by Boston Magazine, and a 2019 TAYSHAS selection by the Texas Library Association. Her forthcoming young adult novel, What Comes After, will be released by Nancy Paulsen Books in April 2025.
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