First publication in a high school creative writing journal and a year's worth of feature stories in her college newspaper while she was copy editor (St. Olaf College), Katherine's first full-time job was as an editorial assistant at Augsburg Publishing in Minneapolis. Lillie Suburban Newspapers in North St. Paul was her next employment where she wrote news, reviews, and features.  

She went from there to the University of Minnesota's newly established Masters of English with an Emphasis in Writing program where she began with a fellowship.  Since then, while writing, she has done freelance editorial work for publishers in Minneapolis and Duluth and she has been an instructor of freshman composition at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. In more recent years, she has worked at new and used bookstores.  Currently, she has an internet business as a bookseller.

Katherine's writing has appeared in regional magazines and in more than 70 literary journals. Her books are featured at this website.

Her outside interests are music, hiking, antique collecting, and birding.  After deciding not to pursue a career in music, she still played flute and piccolo during college, in large ensemble and musical theater in the Twin Cities. Katherine lives in Duluth, Minnesota, liking its nearness to nature, what she was used to, growing up in southern Minnesota.