Katie Singer has a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Over the last 20 years she has taught writing, literature, history and African-American studies. She relocated to California in 2020 where she is presently coaching boxing while working on her next book projects, both creative and academic. Her book, Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark was published in August of 2024. She has also co-authored the memoir of a previously incarcerated writer entitled The Darkest Parts of My Blackness: A Journey of Remorse, Reform, Reconciliation, and (R)evolution. Singer is on the board of the Society for the Short Story in English and has read her work and presented related academic papers at the biannual international conference most every convening since 1999.