Katherine James has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University where she received the Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship and taught undergraduate fiction. She also writes narrative non-fiction as well as poetry, and has work published in various journals and anthologies. One of her short stories was recently a finalist for a Narrative Spring Prize.
Can You See Anything Now? is her debut novel, and was a semi-finalist for the Doris Bakwin Prize. She also has a memoir, Notes On Orion about heroin in the suburbs of Philadelphia, that follows one particular year when it affected her family. It will be released in the spring of 2018.