About

M.K. (Katie) Rainey is a writer, teacher, and editor from Little Rock, Arkansas. She is the recipient of several accolades, including the 2017 Bechtel Prize from Teachers & Writers Magazine, the 2017 Lazuli Literary Group Writing Contest, and the 2018 Montana Award for Fiction from Whitefish Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lit Hub, Writer’s Digest, The Collagist, 3AM Magazine, and more.

Katie is the Executive Director of the Teaching Artists Guild (TAG). Her previous roles include Director of Communications at Creative Generation, Director of the Community-Word Project’s Teaching Artist Project (TAP), and Project Manager for the International Teaching Artist Collaborative’s EDEN Project. She has worked as a teaching artist for over 15 years.

In addition to her teaching and writing, Katie hosted the Animal Riot Reading Series and co-founded Animal Riot Press, where she served as Editor-in-Chief. She also co-hosted the feminist podcast Rosé All Day Anyways. Katie lives in Arkansas with her dog. Sometimes she writes things the dog likes.

Katie holds a BFA in Film Editing from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, a BA in English from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently a second-year law student at the University of Arkansas Bowen School of Law.