Baker Artist Portfolios

KATIE MOULTON is a writer, editor and music critic living in Baltimore City. Her audio memoir, Dead Dad Club: On Grief and Tom Petty, was published by Audible in 2022. 

Her essays, stories, and articles have appeared in The Believer, New England Review, Sewanee Review, Salon, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Oxford American, No Depression, No Tokens, IMAGE, Boulevard, Bitch Magazine, Denver Post, Ninth Letter, Post Road, Village Voice, and many other publications. Her essays have been recognized as notable in Best American Essays, received a special mention from the Pushcart Prize, and anthologized by W.W. Norton, Columbia University, and Indiana University. A 2021 MacDowell fellow, her work has been supported by fellowships and awards from Bread Loaf, Art Omi, Djerassi, Hub City Writers Project, Jentel Foundation, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Tin House Summer Workshop, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, VCCA-France, and Indiana University, where she earned her MFA and was the editor of Indiana Review. 

She was a culture journalist for Voice Media Group alternative-weekly newspapers for many years, beginning in 2009, and was the Music Editor of Westword in Denver. She's worked as a radio DJ, festival organizer, venue manager, and literary editor. She teaches creative writing in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and with the Newport MFA at Salve Regina University.