essays
Exit Interview Parts I, II, and III. Mommy’s El Camino, Wendy C. Ortiz‘s newsletter, Sept – Oct 2023.
“like [my] mother, like me,” The Seventh Wave, June 2023. Best American Essays 2024 and Best of the Net 2024 nominated.
“Faux Fur,” J Journal: New Writing on Justice, May 2023.
“Woven at the Center,” Moss, February 2022.
“Discovering You’re Jewish,” Jewish in Seattle, February 2018.
“It’s in Everything” and “Thursday Night in Winter, Los Angeles, 1994,” Arcadia Magazine, Fall 2016.
“Guidelines for Submission,” Manifest Station, Summer 2016.
“Out Too Far,” Crab Creek Review, Winter 2015.
“(On) Leaving and Returning,” 5×5, Spring 2014.
“The Critics,” Shenandoah, Winter 2014.
“Going to Court,” 34th Parallel, Issue 24, Fall 2013.
“The Revolution Will Be Baked,” Civil Eats, 2010.
Awards
smART Ventures Grant from Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 2023 and 2024.
Open 4Culture Grant for Nonfiction for No Reason, 2023.
Tin House Writing Workshop, July 2020.
Scholarship to Bend Writers Workshop, February 2020.
Residency at Key West Literary Seminar, September 2019.
TENT Fellow at Yiddish Book Center, June 2018.
Scholarship to Centrum Writers Conference, July 2017.
Made at Hugo House Fellow, July 2016 – October 2017.
KATIE LEE ELLISON 