Katie Wudel is a writer, educator, and arts advocate living in Manhattan. Her short stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, Prairie Schooner, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and other magazines. Her writing has been listed among Wigleaf Magazine's Top [Very] Short Fictions of 2011, and she is an alumna of the Hedgebrook residency for visionary women writers.
It’s impossible to discuss last weekend’s first ever “free celebration of the poetry world of New York City” without mentioning the fact that it wasn’t in New York City.