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I'm an attorney and writer.
As a corporate attorney, I specialize in practical applications of the law within high-level businesses with a particular emphasis on working creatively across teams to increase revenue and market share. I've helped Fortune 500 companies (Amazon, Expedia, Nvidia), popular alcoholic beverage companies (Patrón, Singha, Kendall Jackson) and start-up ventures design and launch new consumer-facing business platforms, as well as draft and negotiate a wide-variety of contracts and handle advertising, marketing and trademark issues for clients.
As a writer, I explore the creation of a meaningful life in the modern world, focusing particularly on gritty and nuanced female characters.
I'm currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories.
Here's the one-sentence pitch for my novel:
How to Break a Horse is a novel set in Oregon where a quartet of people become intertwined by a horrible crime and struggle to determine how much the past influences the future and what it means to truly forgive one another and themselves.
Here's the one-sentence pitch for my short story collection:
Women We Could Be is a short story collection about modern women's lives and the current state of North American feminism in which a minor character of one story becomes the main character of the next.
A number of the stories in the collection have been published and if you've got some time to kill, you can check some of them out below.
ONLINE AVAILABILITY
"Cicatrix at the Utah" - TINCTURE JOURNAL (April 2015) - read here.
"To A for Life, Then to B and Her Heirs" - THE BUTTER (August 14, 2015) - read here.
"Grieve" - HOBART ( January 27, 2015) - read here.
"Things We Have Only Begun to Comprehend" - BLUE FIFTH REVIEW (March 2015) - read here.
"City Year" - JENNY MAGAZINE (Spring 2015) - read here.
"About Your Wife's Shoes" - QU.EE/R MAGAZINE (January 15, 2014) - read here.
PRINT AVAILABILITY ONLY (hit up the library!)
"How We'll Know Ourselves" - PRINTERS ROW JOURNAL of the Chicago Tribune (February 15, 2015)
"Fishing with my Father" - GRAY'S SPORTING JOURNAL (March/April 2015)
"London, When We" - RIVER TEETH: A JOURNAL OF NONFICTION NARRATIVE (Fall 2015)
What We Don’t Know Might Hurt Us: Subjective Knowledge and the Eighth Amendment’s Deliberate Indifference Standard for Sexual Abuse in Prisons, 65 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 705 (2010), cited in Cox v. Glanz, 800 F.3d 1231 (10th Cir. 2015), Tracy v. Coover, Iowa Court of Appeals, No. 0-778/09-0931 (January 20, 2011) and in the Department of Justice’s 2012 Report on Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails: Review Panel on Prison Rape.
Critical reviews: movies, plays and events - TACONIC PRESS (2001)
PRESS
Friday Feature: Interview with Katherine Robb - JENNY MAGAZINE - read here.
I'm an attorney and writer.
As a corporate attorney, I specialize in practical applications of the law within high-level businesses with a particular emphasis on working creatively across teams to increase revenue and market share. I've helped Fortune 500 companies (Amazon, Expedia, Nvidia), popular alcoholic beverage companies (Patrón, Singha, Kendall Jackson) and start-up ventures design and launch new consumer-facing business platforms, as well as draft and negotiate a wide-variety of contracts and handle advertising, marketing and trademark issues for clients.
As a writer, I explore the creation of a meaningful life in the modern world, focusing particularly on gritty and nuanced female characters.
I'm currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories.
Here's the one-sentence pitch for my novel:
How to Break a Horse is a novel set in Oregon where a quartet of people become intertwined by a horrible crime and struggle to determine how much the past influences the future and what it means to truly forgive one another and themselves.
Here's the one-sentence pitch for my short story collection:
Women We Could Be is a short story collection about modern women's lives and the current state of North American feminism in which a minor character of one story becomes the main character of the next.
A number of the stories in the collection have been published and if you've got some time to kill, you can check some of them out below.
ONLINE AVAILABILITY
"Cicatrix at the Utah" - TINCTURE JOURNAL (April 2015) - read here.
"To A for Life, Then to B and Her Heirs" - THE BUTTER (August 14, 2015) - read here.
"Grieve" - HOBART ( January 27, 2015) - read here.
"Things We Have Only Begun to Comprehend" - BLUE FIFTH REVIEW (March 2015) - read here.
"City Year" - JENNY MAGAZINE (Spring 2015) - read here.
"About Your Wife's Shoes" - QU.EE/R MAGAZINE (January 15, 2014) - read here.
PRINT AVAILABILITY ONLY (hit up the library!)
"How We'll Know Ourselves" - PRINTERS ROW JOURNAL of the Chicago Tribune (February 15, 2015)
"Fishing with my Father" - GRAY'S SPORTING JOURNAL (March/April 2015)
"London, When We" - RIVER TEETH: A JOURNAL OF NONFICTION NARRATIVE (Fall 2015)
What We Don’t Know Might Hurt Us: Subjective Knowledge and the Eighth Amendment’s Deliberate Indifference Standard for Sexual Abuse in Prisons, 65 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 705 (2010), cited in Cox v. Glanz, 800 F.3d 1231 (10th Cir. 2015), Tracy v. Coover, Iowa Court of Appeals, No. 0-778/09-0931 (January 20, 2011) and in the Department of Justice’s 2012 Report on Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails: Review Panel on Prison Rape.
Critical reviews: movies, plays and events - TACONIC PRESS (2001)
PRESS
Friday Feature: Interview with Katherine Robb - JENNY MAGAZINE - read here.