Katherine Damm's short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, New England Review, and The Best American Short Stories 2024. She received her M.F.A. from the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine, where she taught in the English department and co-edited the literary magazine, Faultline. She graduated with an A.B. in Literature from Harvard College, where she wrote for the Lampoon and the Harvard Advocate. Originally from Philadelphia, she currently lives in New York with her family and her poodle and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Marymount Manhattan College. She is working on a novel.