Katie Schwartz Non-Fiction Essayist, Comedy Writer

About Me

	Katie Schwartz Los Angeles Member since: Apr, 2008 Last login: 11/03/2009 Last update : 04/12/2009 Contact Me
photo credit: Jonuel Pozo

Hometown	New York City
Nickname	Katie

Katie's first collection of non-fiction essays titled "Emotionally Pantsed" is forthcoming, date TBA. Katie's essays have been featured in Ostrich Ink, Monkeybicycle, Dirty Humor Issue #5, Farmhouse Magazine, Girlistic Magazine, Opium Magazine, Katie Schwartz on Amy Guth, Tastes like Chicken and 6S, among other fabulous publications that she’s super happy published her work. You can read her daily rants about life, love—or lack thereof and social commentary at her Blog, All the Way from Oy to Vey.

Reading, writing, knitting, exercising, watching television/movies, collecting vintage thochkies and perfumes, spending time with family and friends, laughing--a lot.

(and writers) Charles Bukowski, Adrienne Rich, Jenny Bicks, Whoopi Goldberg, Gloria Steinem, David & Amy Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Neil Simon, Michael Patrick King, Cindy Chupack, Eminem, Woody Allen, Reinaldo Arenas, John Waters, Norman Lear, Nora Ephron, Pedro Almodóvar, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Margaret Atwood, Virgina Woolf, Aretha Franklin, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Andrei Codrescou, Alice Walker, Gertrude Stein and so many others.

Slaughterhouse Five, You Must be This Happy to Enter, The Faith Between Us and A Bar in Brooklyn (and loving them, terrific reads)

Undergraduate College/University	San Francisco State University, class of
Undergraduate Area of Study	Political Science and Psychology
High School	Durham High School, class of

Debut Collection of Essays forthcoming from So New Media Publishing in late spring 08'.

Charles Bukowski, Adrienne Rich, Norman Lear, Gloria Steinem, David Sedaris and many others.