Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1967
• Raised—Midland, Michigan, USA
• Education—M.F.A., Columbia University
• Currently—lives outside Washington, DC
Katherine Heiny was only 25 when she received a call from The New Yorker about publishing her short story "How to Give the Wrong Impression." She was then a poor graduate student enrolled in the M.F.A. program at Columbia University and struggling to pay her rent.
Later, after another of her stories appeared in Seventeen Magazine, she received a different phone call—this one from a book publisher who asked if she would be interested in writing young adult books. Why not, she thinks, and now, years later, she claims more than 20 YA novels under her belt...and under various pen names.
Her debut story collection Single, Carefree, Mellow (2015) is her first book as Katherine Heiny. She lives in Washington DC with her husband Ian McCredie and their children. (Adapted from an interview in Longreads.)
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