First publication in a high school creative writing journal and a year's worth of feature stories in her college newspaper while she was copy editor (St. Olaf College), Katherine's first fulltime job was as an editorial assistant at Augsburg Publishing in Minneapolis.  Lillie Suburban Newspapers in North St. Paul was her next employment where she wrote news, reviews, features.  

She went from there to the University of Minnesota's newly established Masters of English with an Emphasis in Writing program where she began with a fellowship and finished with work in fiction, working with Patricia Hampl, Chester Anderson, and Pierre Delattre.   Also, she was involved with The Loft, acting as a committee member for their Northwind Story Hour and taking courses from children's authors Susan Pearson and Jane Resh Thomas.

Since then, while writing, she has done freelance editorial work for publishers in Minneapolis and Duluth (Carnival Enterprises – Macmillan, Skillings Mining Review, Lake Superior Railroad Museum, Holy Cow! Press).  She was a freshman composition instructor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and has worked at bookstores, both new and used.  Currently, she has an internet business as a bookseller.

Her outside interests are music, hiking, and swimming.  After deciding not to pursue a career in music, she still played flute and piccolo during college, large ensemble and musical theater which she also did in the Twin Cites.  She currently lives in Duluth, Minnesota, liking its nearness to nature, what she was used to, growing up in southern Minnesota.