Katherine Laidlaw is a National Magazine Award winning feature writer and essayist. Her work has appeared in Outside, WIRED, Marie Claire, BuzzFeed, The Walrus, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at Toronto Life magazine, and wrote two of the magazine’s top five best performing stories of 2017. She writes the Survival Skills column for Hazlitt; the inaugural essay, A Place of Absorption, went viral and was one of the site’s top performing pieces of last year. Her stories have appeared in Best Canadian Sportswriting, Best Canadian Essays, and Best American Sportswriting. She has received multiple National Magazine Award nominations, including in the best short feature and best profile categories, and her stories have received numerous Longreads citations. She is a former senior editor of The Walrus, and began her career reporting from the Canadian Arctic. She writes most often on nature, crime, health, and women’s issues.
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