About

M.K. (Katie) Rainey is a writer, teacher, and editor from Little Rock, Arkansas. She is the winner of the 2017 Bechtel Prize at 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. She currently serves as a Co-Executive Director of the Teaching Artists Guild (TAG) and Director of Communications at Creative Generation. Previously she served as the Director of Community-Word Project’s Teaching Artist Project (TAP), Project Manager of the International Teaching Artist Collaborative’s EDEN Project, and has been a teaching artist for over 10 years.

She previously hosted the Animal Riot Reading Series and was the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Animal Riot Press, a literary press that strives to collaborate with writers to create work that matters. She is a co-host of the feminist podcast Rosé All Day Anyways. She lives in Arkansas with her dog. Sometimes she writes things the dog likes.

Katie graduated with 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 1L student at the University of Arkansas Bowen School of Law.