KATHERINE FACTOR

Well, hello!

I am a technical writer and an author of five books, an enthusiastic editor, literary artist, and an educator offering a cauldron of services that will cast a positive spell on your learning projects, content, or book dreams—all to empower your craft, your business, and your goals.

Committed to unburying your authentic, unique story, I bring inspired integrity to your endeavors. Raised by educators in the arts and liberal arts, I have a cultivated understanding of how to midwife a project into production, warmly encouraging clients.

I am an energetic coach and collaborator, editor, and writer available to support you.

Projects and grants from organizations that steward meaning in the world—whether for AmeriCorps, Interlochen Center for the Arts, or the Harry Smith Archives—widen my experience. I have taught at the University of Iowa, Concordia University, Interlochen, and Idyllwild Arts Academy, as well as in summer programs like Northwestern’s Center for Talent Development.  

I earned my MFA from The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and served as Poet-in-Residence at Idyllwild Arts Academy and Interlochen Arts Academy, and as assistant editor of inter|rupture. My poetry collection, A Sybil Society, won Interim Poetics’ TEST SITE POETRY PRIZE. I am currently seeking publishers for the manuscripts Spore Oracle and Ancient Create. My poems have also been a semi-finalist for the PANK First Book Award, the Cleveland State University First Book Poetry Award, the Madeline Plonsker Lake Forest Emerging Writers’ Award, and the Beyond Baroque Poetry Prize. 

Poems and prose can be found online and in print at TYPO, Wave Conjunctions, Interim, femaleandfungi.com, Rescue Press, TIGHT, Wesleyan Books, Quarterly West, Poets for Living Waters, Occupy Poetry, DIAGRAM, the Colorado Review, and at Coldfront’s Poets off Poetry. My audio work lives at SoundCloud, WFMU’s Frow Show, TextSound,  and The Conversant.

My passions lie in language, ancient cultures, music, and mythology — and you! I care about user journeys and empowering your experience through good writing.  My spoken word and work with oracular poems as well as four interactive fiction books for Choose Your Own Adventure (SPIES: Mata Hari, Harry Houdini, Spy for Cleopatra, and Big Bigfoot’s Secret Vacation), express these interests.