Katherine Atlee Robb is the daughter of two Texans who escaped the heat. She was born in Idaho and raised in Oregon, then attended college in New York and law school in California. After practicing law in the Bay Area, she turned to writing and now splits her time between the Bronx and western Catskills.
Katherine's legal scholarly work on ways to eliminate and hold prison guards accountable for male prison rape ("What We Don't Know Might Hurt Us: Subjective Knowledge and the Eighth Amendment's Deliberate Indifference Standard for Sexual Abuse in Prisons") has been cited by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the Iowa Court of Appeals, the US Department of Justice, and numerous scholars. As a lawyer, she worked with venture-backed start-ups at Cooley in Silicon Valley before helping to start a law firm in San Francisco that specialized in alcoholic beverage law. There she created novel business structures for several Fortune 500 companies.
After re-locating to New York City with her husband, she transitioned into a writing life after spending several years tackling post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from childhood events. She and her husband have a high-energy dog named Odysseus. Currently, she is re-developing her athletic life after several years of injury, but once upon a time she ran and biked across Oregon, captained her college rugby team, and was an ultra-runner.
Katherine's fiction and non-fiction have been published in Electric Literature, Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row Journal, Gray’s Sporting Journal, The Toast, Hobart, Blue Fifth Review, Jenny, Tincture Journal, River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, and Catapult, among others.
She is currently working on three projects:
TEARS CAN RUST A RIFLE, a queer re-telling of Romeo and Juliet set in the Park Cities area of Dallas, Texas;
WOMEN WE COULD BECOME, a short story collection examining the stories women are told about who they can be and the limitations of such stories; and
RESURRECTION OF A RUNNER, a memoir about PTSD and identity.
Katherine's legal scholarly work on ways to eliminate and hold prison guards accountable for male prison rape ("What We Don't Know Might Hurt Us: Subjective Knowledge and the Eighth Amendment's Deliberate Indifference Standard for Sexual Abuse in Prisons") has been cited by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the Iowa Court of Appeals, the US Department of Justice, and numerous scholars. As a lawyer, she worked with venture-backed start-ups at Cooley in Silicon Valley before helping to start a law firm in San Francisco that specialized in alcoholic beverage law. There she created novel business structures for several Fortune 500 companies.
After re-locating to New York City with her husband, she transitioned into a writing life after spending several years tackling post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from childhood events. She and her husband have a high-energy dog named Odysseus. Currently, she is re-developing her athletic life after several years of injury, but once upon a time she ran and biked across Oregon, captained her college rugby team, and was an ultra-runner.
Katherine's fiction and non-fiction have been published in Electric Literature, Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row Journal, Gray’s Sporting Journal, The Toast, Hobart, Blue Fifth Review, Jenny, Tincture Journal, River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, and Catapult, among others.
She is currently working on three projects:
TEARS CAN RUST A RIFLE, a queer re-telling of Romeo and Juliet set in the Park Cities area of Dallas, Texas;
WOMEN WE COULD BECOME, a short story collection examining the stories women are told about who they can be and the limitations of such stories; and
RESURRECTION OF A RUNNER, a memoir about PTSD and identity.