Katie Ward is a writer living in Massachusetts. She holds a Bachelor's Degree from Vanderbilt University, and an MFA in Prose from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where her writing was selected as an Honorable Mention for the Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award in Fiction. Her work appears or is forthcoming in STORY, The Temz Review, Moon City Review, the South Carolina Review, and elsewhere. She is an alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Currently, she is at work on a collection of short stories and a novel.