In this conversation at the Unbound Book Festival, Kati and journalist Patrick Radden Keefe discuss ways the American medical system ends up harming instead of helping.

Our beating hearts are easy to take for granted until they no longer work. Join authors Katherine Standefer and Florence Williams at Tucson Festival of Books as they share their journeys into healthcare and science to heal their broken hearts.

Our beating hearts are easy to take for granted until they no longer work. Join authors Katherine Standefer and Florence Williams at Tucson Festival of Books as they share their journeys into healthcare and science to heal their broken hearts.

Essayists Emily Maloney and Katherine E. Standefer discuss their experiences in the healthcare system and writing about the body with moderator Melissa Matthewson, as part of the Sandra and Carl Ellston Ars Poetica Fund and Eastern Oregon University MFA.

Although writing can be healing, crafting and publishing our most difficult stories can make trauma worse. In this 3-hour workshop with author and trauma specialist Katherine Standefer, learn how the physiological processes of trauma and shame interact with a writing process. Together, we’ll discuss some of the embodied blocks writers experience, touch into the craft problems common to this material, and explore tools for moving forward at the right time and with the right pace.

Join New York University’s Center for Disability Studies and Office of Global Inclusion for a conversation between author Katherine Standefer (who lives with an ICD) and media scholar Neta Alexander (who lives with a pacemaker) about the double-edged sword of implantable cardiac technologies.

Join Kati at the Utah Humanities Book Festival and the University of Utah School of Medicine’s Center for Health Ethics, Art, and Humanities for a lively discussion as part of the Evening Ethics speaker series. We'll explore how Standefer's complex experience as a "cyborg" and supply chain research map onto the Four Pillars of Medical Ethics, wrestling with questions about harm, justice, and autonomy on both the individual and communal level.

Learn how the physiological processes of trauma and shame interact with a writing process. Discuss some of the embodied blocks writers experience, touch into the craft problems common to traumatic material, and explore tools for moving forward at the right time and with the right pace.

Join Kati and Sudden Cardiac Arrest survivors Jasmine Wylie & Greg Totero for this special panel about living with an implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), hosted by the SADS Foundation as part of its “Living with SADS” series.

In this episode of the SADS Foundation’s Live series, Kati will join eminent genetic cardiologist—and her doctor at Mayo Clinic as described in Chapters 14 & 15 of Lightning Flowers!—Dr. Michael Ackerman in a conversation about her ICD journey. They’ll discuss what it means to live—and even thrive—with a SADS condition and an ICD.

In this 90-minute gathering, writers have the opportunity to ask Kati their questions— whether craft questions about writing trauma, illness, and sexuality; the way a writing life intersects spiritual invitations; or what it means to put our work in the world at this moment.

Join Kati for a virtual reading at Elk River Books of Livingston, Montana, one of the communities where she worked on Lightning Flowers. The free event will stream live on Elk River Books’ Facebook page.

From being featured on NPR's Fresh Air to appearing in Oprah Magazine's Reading Room, Kati Standefer's debut book Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life is making a splash. What's it like to go from dreaming of being an author to actually seeing your book in the world? In this virtual Kaleidoscope discussion, Kati Standefer will share her behind-the-scenes journey, give a short reading, and offer FUMCAH members a glimpse into why this book is so relevant right now.

Telling our stories of trauma can be excruciating, and the process—if not undertaken carefully—can damage our nervous systems. But for some of us the task is spiritually mandatory. In this 1 hour workshop as part of The Yoga Seed Collective's Roots to Resilience Summit, we’ll explore what it looks like to surrender to a writing process that is operating on multiple planes.

Join Kati as she reads from her new book Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life, as part of the Visiting Writers Series at The Colorado College, her alma mater.

Join Kati for a reading and conversation on Colorado’s Front Range, where much of Lightning Flowers takes place.

Join author Katherine E. Standefer—who grew up in Arlington Heights--for a reading and Q&A from her debut book Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life.

Join Kati for a reading and conversation with one of the beloved communities where Lightning Flowers: My Journey To Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life takes place.

Join Kati in conversation with Philosophy and Medical Humanities Professor Dr. Joseph McCaffrey about her new book Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life. This event is hosted by the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Medical Humanities program.