Katie Booth is a writer, ghostwriter, and consultant whose work has appeared in The Believer, Harper's Magazine, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere, and has been recognized by Longform, Longreads, and Best American Essays. She has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Library of Congress, and has appeared on public radio in Australia, Canada, England and the U.S., on such programs as Radiolab, To The Best of Our Knowledge, The Pulse, Free Thinking, and The Roundtable.
Her first book, The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2021. It was a New York Times editors’ choice, a finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, a finalist for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, and runner-up for the Mark Lynton History Prize from the Columbia School of Journalism and the Neiman Foundation of Harvard. She grew up in a mixed hearing/ deaf family.
She is represented by Farley Chase at Chase Literary Agency.
Click here to learn more about my perspective on, and motivations for, writing about hearing privilege, as well as some suggestions on how to find and read more deaf and hard-of-hearing writers.