How can we ethically write about other people—and what does it mean to do it well? In this 6-hour workshop, explore the craft of building nuanced characters, consider the legal or logistical implications of your storytelling, and reckon with owning your story’s difficult truths.

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.

How can crowdfunding launch, advance, and sustain writing careers? In this three-hour virtual workshop through Seattle’s Hugo House, writers learn the differences between platforms and explore how to build strong campaigns, the emotional tangle of asking for money, the pressure of being accountable to an audience, and the ways crowdfunding can bolster literary community.

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 and debut author Maggie Downs in a fierce and smart conversation hosted by UC Riverside and moderated by local Portland writer Jenny O'Connell about the journey they knew they must take, and the process of not only doing it, but writing a book about it.

In this 90-minute virtual workshop through Jackson Hole Writers, participants will explore how the big questions of our time inhabit the stories of our lives, digging into how our research paths, lines of inquiry, and attention to obsession might open even exquisitely personal stories into larger narratives.

Join Kati and debut author Maggie Downs in a fierce and smart conversation-- moderated by local Portland writer Jenny O'Connell-- about the journey they knew they must take, and the process of not only doing it, but writing a book about it.

What happens when you’re living one life, and you suddenly receive clear spiritual instructions to live another? In this 75-minute conversation facilitated by poet and bone-thrower Kim Stoll, author Kati Standefer, brewery owner/founder Julie Vernon, and Ninth House owner/founder Melisa Doran Cole discuss their experiences being told there was a thing they must do, and becoming the person who could do it.

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.

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 and Kelly Sundberg in conversation about the road from the essay to the book, hosted by The Essay Daily as part of its new Salon series.

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

In this 90-minute virtual workshop through Jackson Hole Writers, participants will explore how the big questions of our time inhabit the stories of our lives, digging into how our research paths, lines of inquiry, and attention to obsession might open even exquisitely personal stories into larger narratives.

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.

**This class is sadly cancelled. ** How can crowdfunding launch, advance, and sustain writing careers? In this three-hour class, writers learn the differences between platforms and explore how to build strong campaigns, the emotional tangle of asking for money, the pressure of being accountable to an audience, and the ways crowdfunding can bolster literary community.