Katherine Hill was born in Washington D.C. and now lives and writes in Philadelphia. Her fiction has been published by n+1, AGNI, Colorado Review, The Common, Philadelphia Stories, and Word Riot, and has been featured on WXPN 88.5 Philadelphia. She is the recipient of the Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction, the Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction, and fellowship support from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her articles and reviews have appeared in many publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Bookforum, Poets & Writers, The Believer, and Philadelphia City Paper. She is an assistant editor at Barrelhouse, works in communications at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught writing at Philadelphia University and Mighty Writers in South Philadelphia. She holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.F.A. from Bennington College. She is currently at work on a novel.