Kathryn “Katie” Ionata is the author of the poetry chapbook Yield Signs Don’t Exist (PS Books, 2016). She is a a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee  whose work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Toast, The Best of Philadelphia Stories, Cleaver Magazine, The Wisconsin Review, The Hawai’i Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Aries, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and elsewhere.

Kathryn earned her MFA in Creative Writing Fiction at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she also graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a BA in English. She teaches writing at The College of New Jersey and Temple University.