Hi, I’m Katherine! I’m a writer, fact-checker, and a member of The New Yorker’s editorial staff. I was previously an assistant editor at The Atlantic, where I worked on the print magazine, edited poetry, and read fiction.

I’ve worked on everything from print features to newsletters. I was a checker on David D. Kirkpatrick’s piece on how the Biden administration enabled Israel in Gaza and Eric Klinenberg’s on European heat waves. I’m also well-versed in investigative research—I spent around a year as a reporting partner to McKay Coppins for his profile of James Murdoch and surfaced court documents regarding sexual assault for Jenisha Watts’ cover story about her upbringing in Kentucky.

I began my career in editorial operations, and know my way around an Airtable integration (or six). I’m fluent in Chinese, conversational (enough) in French, and live in Brooklyn. I also write fiction.

You can find my work in The Atlantic, New York Times, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times, plus a version of me on Bluesky and LinkedIn.

WRITING

Culture + Technology

  • AI Astrology Is Getting a Little Too Personal, The Atlantic

  • Even Influencers Are Scared of the Internet, The Atlantic

  • The Influencer Economy Is Warping the American Dream, The Atlantic [for The Atlantic’s flagship newsletter]

  • Watching Opera on a Jumbotron, The Atlantic

Fiction

  • How to Thrive in a Dying World, The Atlantic [review of C Pam Zhang’s Land of Milk and Honey]

  • Q&A: Ben Okri on Manipulating Reality, The Atlantic

  • Q&A: Mona Simpson on the Dissonance Between Reality and Memory, The Atlantic

  • Q&A: Elaine Hsieh Chou on the Ethics of ‘Trauma Porn,’ The Atlantic

Essays

CHECKING & RESEARCH

  • At The New Yorker, I’ve worked on print features such as David D. Kirkpatrick on how the Biden administration enabled Israel in Gaza and Eric Klinenberg on European heat waves.

  • At The Atlantic, I checked various pieces over the years, including this cover story by J. Michael Luttig on Trump’s desire for a third term and this hilarious feature by Alexandra Petri on her one-woman attempt to replace the bureaucracy. I also checked this historical dispatch about what the Founding Fathers probably ate.

  • For about a year, I was a reporting partner to McKay Coppins for his cover story on James Murdoch. This included briefings en route to interviews with sources and compiling dozens of pages in targeted research memos.

  • As part of Jenisha Watts’ cover story about her childhood in Kentucky, I worked on record requests to verify the facts of an assault. I called courts, police departments, social services, and libraries, and surfaced both the needed documents and additional files that altered the ending of the piece.

POETRY & FICTION

I edited and curated the weekly web poetry section for The Atlantic in 2025 (with Walt Hunter). Here is a selection of poems I worked on:

I also read countless fiction submissions and helped edit this 2023 flash fiction project with Oliver Munday, which included writers such as Tess Gunty and Kiese Laymon.

Contact me: