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Katherine James

Writer / Teacher
West Chester,PA

Summary

Award-winning memoirist, essayist, poet, and literary fiction writer with an intuitive and effective, relationship-oriented approach to teaching creative writing at the high school and adult level.


Speaker and writing instructor at key literary conferences, festivals, and colleges. Engages with various aspects of the craft of writing in fiction and memoir, including character development, point of view, and plot, with a focus on the importance of restraint, the incidental, and gaining the trust of the reader.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Director of Publishing

Ratio Christi Press
02.2022 - Current

Review and edit publications for RCPress

Novelist, Memoirist

Self Employed
05.2006 - Current

Ongoing and past writing projects: novel, memoir, reviews, essays, poetry.

Keynote Speaker, Lecturer, Seminar Leader

Self Employed
04.2006 - Current

Past appointments include:

-Festival of Faith and Writing, Calvin University. Taught workshop on character development in fiction. https://ccfw.calvin.edu/speakers/katherine-james/

-Taylor University. Keynote speaker, Professional Writer’s Conference

-Called to Write, Keynote speaker

-Faculty Selects, KGB Bar, New York City

-Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Keynote speaker, Is Henry Really Real? Character Development in memoir

Acquisitions Editor

Cru
02.2018 - 03.2022

Receive and review submissions for possible publication. Present qualified submissions to pub team for review. Communicate with authors on an ongoing basis regarding the status and process of their submission.

Creative Writing Instructor

Columbia University
09.2002 - 02.2003

Taught undergraduate fiction class. Carefully read student’s writing and suggested edits. Led class discussions on each student’s work. Spent individual time with students, outlining their strengths and areas for growth. Suggested next steps to students interested in pursuing publication.

Education

Fine Art

Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

Master of Arts - Creative Writing, Fiction Concentration

Columbia University
New York, NY
05.2001 -

Publications

Memoir:

A Prayer for Orion (Intervarsity Press, 2020)

Novel:

Can You See Anything Now (Paraclete, 2017)

Book Reviews:

The Lovely Country That Smells of Evil (Christianity Today)

Sex is the Earthly Glow of the Heavenly City (Christianity Today)

Poetry:

John 21 (Between Midnight and Dawn)

Returning (In the Arms of Words)

Essays:

My Essay on Sonny's Blues (St. Katherine Review)

My dad one (Dating During the Apocalypse)

Anthologies:

Between Midnight and Dawn (Paraclete)

Everbloom (Paraclete)

Dating During the Apocalypse (Crupress)

Timeline

Associate Director of Publishing

Ratio Christi Press
02.2022 - Current

Acquisitions Editor

Cru
02.2018 - 03.2022

Novelist, Memoirist

Self Employed
05.2006 - Current

Keynote Speaker, Lecturer, Seminar Leader

Self Employed
04.2006 - Current

Creative Writing Instructor

Columbia University
09.2002 - 02.2003

Master of Arts - Creative Writing, Fiction Concentration

Columbia University
05.2001 -

Fine Art

Syracuse University
Katherine JamesWriter / Teacher