Katherine Damm
Associate Teaching Professor
Katherine Damm’s fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories anthology and journals such as Ploughshares, New England Review, The Iowa Review, and The Cincinnati Review. She received her M.F.A. from the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine, where she taught in the Composition, Literary Journalism, and Fiction programs and co-edited Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters. She graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Literature and a secondary field in Economics. While there, she wrote for the Lampoon and the Harvard Advocate. Alongside teaching creative writing classes at Northeastern’s New York City campus, she is working on a novel.
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard College 2013
The Macdonald Harris Prize for Fiction, UC-Irvine, 2019
Schaeffer Graduate Fellowship, UC-Irvine, 2020
The Iowa Review’s Tim McGinnis Award, 2022/2023
Best American Short Stories selection for “The Happiest Day of Your Life”, 2024
Finalist, STORY Foundation Prize, 2026
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Education
MFA, University of California, Irvine
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Contact
Creative Writing
ENGL 2700
Gives the developing writer an opportunity to practice writing various forms of both poetry and prose. Features in-class discussion of student work.
