Katie Booth is a writer and collaborator 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.
As a collaborator, Katie has worked, or is currently working, with
· Rachel Yehuda, Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the leading authority on intergenerational trauma, on The Resilience Response: The New Science of Trauma and How We Heal Across Generations;
· Emily Falk, Director of the Neuroscience Communication Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, and expert in the science of attitude and behavior change, on What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change;
· Amishi Jha, Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative at the University of Miami, on an offshoot project for National Bestseller Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes A Day; and
· Raj Panjabi, former White House Senior Director and globally recognized authority in health care and public policy, on Safer, on community-based solutions to global pandemics.
Katie is represented by Farley Chase at Chase Literary Agency.