Katie M Zeigler is a writer and professor living in Walnut Creek, CA.  Zeigler holds a BA and MA in English from Stanford University and an MFA in Creative Writing from St. Mary's College.

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She has had short fiction and non-fiction published in a variety of outlets, including Smokelong Quarterly, Maine Review, The Worcester Review, HerStry, Stonecoast Review, Atlas & Alice, The Centifictionist, Digging, Griffel, Wilson Quarterly, Fish Anthology and Stanford Magazine.  Zeigler won the 2023 Baltimore Review Winter Contest, the Stanford Magazine Fiction Contest, was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s short fiction contest, and placed second in Fish Anthology’s international flash fiction contest. ​Her debut flash collection, The Last of the Cursive Writers, was published by Flume Press in June 2025. She has also performed readings of her short fiction for LitQuake, Why There Are Words and the Peninsula Literary Society and has been featured on the In Short: Short Story Podcast and the MFA Writers Podcast.  She currently teaches writing and composition at St. Mary's College and Los Medanos College and creative writing at Diablo Valley College.​

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