There are many ways the world speaks to us, and oracle cards are one of them. In this 2-hour evening workshop, join me at The Ninth House to write where your attention is requested.

There are many ways the world speaks to us, and oracle cards are one of them. In this 2-hour evening workshop, join me at The Ninth House to write where your attention is requested.

There are many ways the world speaks to us, and oracle cards are one of them. In this 2-hour evening workshop, join me at The Ninth House to write where your attention is requested.

There is a great temptation to airbrush ourselves on the page, and yet this leaves us not only less trustworthy on the page, but less interesting. In this evening nonfiction seminar, students will explore how the contradictions in their personalities—the gaps between dirty laundry and grace—are the most interesting space. Hosted by Sublette County Public Library in Pinedale, Wyoming.

What stories does a body have to tell? In this 3-hour workshop at Teton County Library, we’ll use the powerful anthology Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays to unlock the stories folded into our limbs and organs, considering how different forms and voices allow us to make meaning from our corporeal histories, and writing to prompts that help us excavate and illuminate the stories we contain.

Join Kati and Colorado Review editor Stephanie G'Schwind at Denver Lit Crawl 2018 as they read from Colorado Book Award-winning anthology Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays.

There are many ways the world speaks to us, and oracle cards are one of them. In this 2-hour evening workshop, join me at The Ninth House to write where your attention is requested.

"If you can't talk about something, you can't think about something," writer Eula Biss told Krista Tippett. Join me in April as alumni of my classes-- writers of sex, illness, and trauma-- read together for the 2nd Annual Literary Bacchanal on the patio at Tucson Hop Shop.

After nearly five years, 27 issues, hundreds of articles, and more than 4,000 pages, Edible Baja Arizona editor Megan Kimble is stepping down. Join me in the beer garden of Tucson Hop Shop on November 28 to honor Megan's visionary work with a reading of some of her favorite pieces from the magazine (including Kati's "The Sustenance of Democracy").  

Join Kati and co-contributor Sarah Viren as they help launch Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays at Tucson's Antigone Books. Culled from some of the nation's best literary journals, each essay in the anthology explores a different body part.

Writing can be healing. But writing can also re-traumatize, making it difficult to tell the stories that make us who we are. In this workshop at The Examined Life Conference in Iowa City, IA, participants will explore how what an embodied, trauma-sensitive pedagogy has to offer the creative writing workshop.

In this Examined Life Conference one-day workshop at the Carver College of Medicine, we’ll use published illness writing as our launching pad for exploring how to successfully manage the chronology and scope of modern illness experiences on the page. 

Join Kati as she reads alongside her students from the class "Disorienting the Essay" at the University of Arizona Poetry Center's Spring Classes and Workshop Reading.

Join editor Ander Monson, Kati Standefer, and other local contributors as they send Essay Daily's first anthology off into the world.

Join Kati at the University of Arizona MFA Program's yearly Alumni WIP-- an event that honors the poetry and prose Works-in-Progress of badass local alumni. 

Listen to Kati and other contributors read from the essays they contributed to How We Speak To One Another, which explores the essay as conversation, giving context to a genre and deepening the flexibility and vitality of its many forms. 

Join Kati and other contributors to How We Speak To One Another: An Essay Daily Reader at Tucson Festival of Books to discuss the essay as a multifaceted literary genre.  More information forthcoming.

"If you can't talk about something, you can't think about something," writer Eula Biss told Krista Tippett. Join me in late February, as alumni of my classes-- writers of sex, illness, and trauma-- read together for the first time on the patio at Tucson Hop Shop.

Come say hi as I sign copies of the anthology How We Speak To One Another at Coffee House Press's AWP booth!