about
Katie Moulton is a writer, editor and music critic. Her audio memoir, Dead Dad Club: On Grief and Tom Petty, was released by Audible in June 2022.
Her essays, stories, and articles appear or are forthcoming in Salon, The Believer, New England Review, Sewanee Review, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Tin House, Oxford American, No Depression, Catapult, Boulevard, Bitch Magazine, Consequence, Denver Post, The Journal, March Xness, Ninth Letter, Post Road, Village Voice, and elsewhere. A 2021 MacDowell fellow, her work has been supported by fellowships and awards from Bread Loaf, Art Omi, Djerassi, Hub City Writers Project, Jentel Foundation, Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Tin House Summer Workshop, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Indiana University, where she earned her MFA and was the editor of Indiana Review.
She has been a culture journalist for Voice Media Group newspapers since 2009, and was the Music Editor of Westword in Denver. She's worked as a radio DJ, festival organizer, venue manager, and literary editor.
Born and raised in St. Louis, she lives in Baltimore and teaches with The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the Newport MFA at Salve Regina University. Her go-to karaoke jam is "Flagpole Sitta" by Harvey Danger.
Follow her @KJMoulton on Twitter and Instagram.
She is represented by Marya Spence at Janklow & Nesbit.