

Kathleen's nonfiction and humor have appeared in the New Yorker's Shouts & Murmurs, the Atlantic, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Catapult, and Electric Lit, among other places. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco.
Kathleen is the editorial director at Giffords, the gun safety group founded by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and previously worked at media startups in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Kathleen is currently working on a satirical novel set in San Francisco in 2016. She served on the inaugural associate board of 826 Valencia, a creative writing tutoring center serving under-resourced communities in San Francisco, and currently volunteers with My Life My Stories, a nonprofit that helps seniors write and publish their memoirs.