upcoming classes & events
Come find me at the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Saturday, May 20!
Our most powerful stories can be the most brutal to write, leaving us frustrated, emotionally activated, and stuck. What gets in the way? How can we push forward without damaging our mental and physical health? In this 4-hour workshop hosted in-person by Paonia Books in Paonia, Colorado, we'll build a toolbox for unlocking urgent stories that have so far resisted telling.
Join Kati for a glass of cider and a reading at Paonia Books on this late spring evening.
Although writing can be healing, crafting and publishing our most difficult stories can make trauma worse. In this 2-hour workshop hosted by the Deschutes Public Library, learn how the physiological processes of trauma and shame interact with a writing process.
Join Kati for a virtual reading through Northern Arizona University MFA’s Cinder Skies series, alongside nonfiction writer Alli Mancz.
There’s only one bookstore that changes Kati’s life in her book Lightning Flowers. Join her for a book talk and conversation this autumn at that very special location: The Boulder Bookstore.
Catch Kati for a reading and Q&A from the new paperback edition of Lightning Flowers in the tiny, beautiful town of Basalt, Colorado.
Join Kati in stunning Telluride, Colorado, for a presentation and conversation hosted by Wilkinson Public Library and Between the Covers Bookstore.
Join Kati at The Literary Book Bar in her dad’s college town (!) for a reading, Q&A, and signing celebrating the new paperback edition of Lightning Flowers.
Join Katherine Standefer for a virtual reading, book talk, and Q&A hosted by the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Foundation. The EKR Foundation continues the work of the famed Swiss psychiatrist who developed the now-famous Five Stages of Grief. In this event, Katherine shares her experience living in relationship to death as a young person.
Join Kati at the famed Prairie Lights Books & Cafe in downtown Iowa City for a conversation with local author Thomas Mira y Lopez, author of The Book of Resting Places, in celebration of the paperback launch of Lightning Flowers.
Join Kati at A Room of One’s Own Books & Gifts in Madison, Wisconsin, for a reading and Q&A about Lightning Flowers.
Stop by Barbara’s Bookstore at its Woodfield Mall location in Schaumburg, IL, to have Kati sign your new paperback copy of Lightning Flowers.
Join Kati for a conversation and reading at Read Between the Lynes Bookstore, where Lightning Flowers was the May 2021 daytime Book Club pick.
Join Kati for a reading and conversation at Valley Bookstore in Jackson, Wyoming.
How can we ethically write about other people—and what does it mean to do it well? In this free 1.5-hour workshop at Sublette County Library, writers will explore the craft of building nuanced characters, reckon with owning their stories’ difficult truths, and consider the legal or logistical implications of their storytelling.
Join Kati at the Jackson Hole Writers Conference, where she’ll deliver the Nonfiction Keynote, teach a workshop, and consult on manuscripts. For nearly three decades, the Jackson Hole Writers Conference has brought together writers of all levels from all walks of life to share ideas, hone craft, and form community.
Stop by Off the Beaten Path Bookstore in Steamboat Springs, CO—Kati’s favorite bookstore as a kid—to have her sign your new paperback copy of Lightning Flowers.
Join Kati for a reading and conversation at Narrow Gauge Book Co-op, in celebration of Lightning Flowers’ paperback release.
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.
Join Kati virtually alongside authors Daisy Pitkin Buchanan and Tom Zoellner for the Northern Arizona Book Festival’s featured Nonfiction Reading.
At this panel at #AWP22 in Philadelphia and online, nonfiction writers Aggie Stewart, Grace Talusan, Katherine Standefer, and Alden Jones offer strategies for pacing emotionally-charged material in trauma memoirs.
Join current University of Arizona MFA Director Susan Briante and program graduates Katherine Standefer, Justin St. Germain and Sophia Terazawa to discuss their work ... and the 50th anniversary of the program.
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.
Join Kati for a book talk and Q&A at the Santa Fe Public Library about her 2021 Kirkus Prize Finalist debut memoir, Lightning Flowers.
Join Kati, law & inequality scholar Dr. Jasmine Harris, and neuroethicist Dr. Timothy Brown for a panel that compares media portrayals of those with disabilities with their actual experience of advanced medical technologies.
Join Kati and herbalist Dara Saville for a short reading and discussion about their different approaches to health writing at the Southwest Word Fiesta, a regional festival that celebrates the power and beauty of the written word, bringing together those who create with those appreciate.
Join Katherine Standefer in conversation with Dr. Kinari Webb, author of the new book Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet, about Webb’s lifelong work to end deforestation by “radically listening” to rainforest communities in places like Indonesia, Madagascar, and Brazil.
