Katie Seigenthaler

Most recent accepted submissions:

* New York Times Tiny Love Stories (May, 2026)

* The Write Launch, Creative Nonfiction (April, 2026)

Co-editor of The Kingdom of the Poor, the best-selling posthumous memoir of homeless activist Charles Strobel. Vanderbilt University Press, 2024.

Co-writer of Hot Spot: A Doctor's Diary from the Pandemic with Dr. Alex Jahangir, leader of Nashville, Tennessee's pandemic task force. Vanderbilt University Press, 2022.

Wordsmith for global communications agency. Leads identity, language and message campaigns for clients in myriad sectors including health, environmental, consumer, travel, manufacturing, and nonprofit. Motto: keep it simple, keep it true.

Local reporter and editor covering the city and suburbs of Chicagoland; originator of the About Du Page column, which focused on politics and civic life in one of the fastest-growing counties in the American Midwest.

Began as a part-time copy clerk in the Style Section while a college student; became a full-time editorial assistant for the Health Section; ended tenure as the paper's Weekend's Best columnist.