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Kathleen McKitty Harris is a fifth-generation native New Yorker who was transplanted in the early 1980s to the Connecticut suburbs. She frantically memorized a battered copy of Lisa Birnbach’s The Official Preppy Handbook to try and fit in. Not surprisingly, she didn’t.
Her work has been published in The New York Times, Longreads, Creative Nonfiction, Pithead Chapel, Brain Child, McSweeney's, and The Rumpus, among others. She is also a Glimmer Train Press short story finalist. Her essay, “A Timeline of Human Female Development,” appears in My Body, My Words, a body-image anthology named by BUSTLE Magazine as one of “11 New Feminist Books That Could Totally Change Your Year.” Her work has been featured in "Memoir Monday,” a collaboration between Narratively, Catapult, Tin House, The Rumpus, Granta, Guernica, and Longreads which features the best of first-person writing.
Kathleen also performs as a storyteller, and has been featured on The Moth Podcast and on such stages as Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater in New York City. She co-hosts the “What’s Your Story?” reading series in northern New Jersey, where she lives with her husband and two children.