Christina Katz

Christina Katz (born December 5, 1966) is an American author, speaker and writing instructor. Katz is the author of reference books for writers, a writing instructor, and she publishes e-zines for emerging and established authors. Her books, Writer Mama, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids, (March 2007), and Get Known Before the Book Deal, Use Your Strengths to Grow an Author's Platform, (October 2008) have been published by Writer's Digest Books.
Early life and education
Christina Perry was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and she was raised in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, the second of three children and the only daughter.
In 1988, Katz received a bachelor's degree in English from Dartmouth College. From 1992-1995, Katz completed coursework for an MFA degree in Fiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago. Her work was selected for publication in the award-winning literary anthology Hair Trigger 14, and she was nominated to write for the journalism department's publication, Chicago Arts and Communications Magazine. While in graduate school, she co-founded a reading series for graduate students with Kristin Bair O'Keeffe called Readings in the Raw, which continues at the college today.
Memberships
Katz is a member of Willamette Writers, the Oregon Writers Colony, Whidbey Island Writers Association, Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and The Authors Guild and Associated Writing Programs. She is a board member of the Wilsonville Arts & Culture Council. She created and hosts the Northwest Author Series in Wilsonville, Oregon, throughout the school year.
Family
Katz currently resides in Wilsonville, Oregon, with her husband, Jason, and daughter, Samantha.
Career
In addition to writing for publication, Katz teaches e-mail classes that help her students progress from writing a first article and getting it published to landing a nonfiction book deal.
Katz founded and publishes monthly e-zines that encourage writers to take their writing careers to the next level. Writers on the Rise, publishing since October 2003, features columnists who give advice on all aspects of writing, including freelancing, specializing, poetry, personal essay writing, fiction writing, and platform development. The Writer Mama Zine, which began publishing in January 2008, focuses on ways mom writers can prosper in their efforts to write from home while raising their kids.
Katz is represented by Rita Rosenkranz of Rita Rosenkranz Literary Agency in New York. Her editor at Writer’s Digest Book is Publisher & Editorial Director, Jane Friedman.
Works
* Writer Mama, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids, Writer's Digest Books, March 2007
* Get Known Before the Book Deal, Use Your Strengths to Grow an Author's Platform, Writer's Digest Books, October 2008.

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