Katherine Forbes Riley is a writer and computational linguist in Vermont. She is represented by Pamela Malpas of the Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency in New York City. Her debut novel, The Bobcat, will be published by Arcade/Skyhorse in June 2019. Katherine's creative writing appears in the Wigleaf 2018 top 50 list, as well as numerous other literary journals, including Buffalo Almanack, from whom she received the Inkslinger's Award for Creative Excellence. She received her BA from Dartmouth College and her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, and has published over 40 academic articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. For the 2016-2017 academic year she was a visiting writer and fellow traveler at the American Academy in Rome; her husband, painter Enrico Riley, was a Rome Prize recipient.
This biography was last updated on 06/18/2019.
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