Katie enjoys her three professions-novelist, freelance journalist, and lawyer-for one reason: her love of the written word. Fiction or nonfiction, Katie thrives on putting thoughts to paper and sharing them with the world. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where the energy of the campus and cafes inspires her to keep writing. Katie earned her master's degree in creative writing from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. Today, she contributes regularly to The Huffington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and other national venues. She's published five books on writing, the most