Katie Booth's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Believer, Catapult, Harper's Magazine, Kaleidoscope, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern,WHYY's The Pulse and Vela. It has been highlighted on Longform and Longreads, and her essay "The Sign for This" was selected as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2016. She has received support from the Edward Albee Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center and the Massachusetts Historical Society, and was a 2017-18 John W. Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress. She grew up in a mixed hearing/ deaf family. Her first book, The Invention of Miracles,about Alexander Graham Bell's lifelong work to alienate deaf people from Sign Language and dismantle the deaf community, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2021.
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