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 rape in men's prisons ("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 where she created novel business structures for several Fortune 500 companies.
After re-locating to New York City with her husband, she transitioned into writing life after tackling post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from childhood events. She runs #FearGardenProject on Twitter as a reminder of how nature writes its own narrative of survival. When she was 17, she ran and biked across Oregon. She then captained her rugby team in college and became an ultra-runner while in law school. Now she is re-developing her athletic life after several years of injury, while also chasing around her rambunctious dog, Odysseus.
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. Currently she is working on three projects:
TEARS CAN RUST A RIFLE, a novel that's 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 limitations of the stories women are told about who they can become; 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 rape in men's prisons ("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 where she created novel business structures for several Fortune 500 companies.
After re-locating to New York City with her husband, she transitioned into writing life after tackling post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from childhood events. She runs #FearGardenProject on Twitter as a reminder of how nature writes its own narrative of survival. When she was 17, she ran and biked across Oregon. She then captained her rugby team in college and became an ultra-runner while in law school. Now she is re-developing her athletic life after several years of injury, while also chasing around her rambunctious dog, Odysseus.
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. Currently she is working on three projects:
TEARS CAN RUST A RIFLE, a novel that's 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 limitations of the stories women are told about who they can become; and
RESURRECTION OF A RUNNER, a memoir about PTSD and identity.