ABOUT KATIE
Katie Arnold is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir, Running Home, published by Random House in 2019. She is a contributing editor and former managing editor at Outside magazine, where she worked on staff for 12 years and created the popular “Raising Rippers” column, about bringing up adventurous children outside. Her 2018 essay in Outside, “Want a Strong Kid? Encourage Play, Not Competition,” was nominated for a National Magazine Award in service journalism.
She has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Travel + Leisure, Runner’s World, ESPN: The Magazine, Elle, and many others. Her long-form profiles have been named runner-up in The Best American Sports Writing 2008 and nominated for a Western Publishing Association magazine award, and her essays have been anthologized in Woman’s Best Friend, Another Mother Runner, and P.S. What I Didn’t Tell you. She is the editor of the photography book, Rio Grande: An Eagle’s View, published by WildEarth Guardians.
Katie has been awarded prestigious literary fellowships at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming and the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, where she was named the Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellow in 2016. She has guest-taught nature journalism workshops at Colorado College and leads writing and running Flow Camps, exploring the link between movement and creativity, nature and inspiration. Her public speaking includes keynotes for Thornburg Investment, the University of Southern California, Vail Mountain School, and Bigger than the Trail, a nonprofit mental health advocacy group, as well as many academic and public venues.
She has been featured on NPR Weekend Edition Sunday, as well as the “Finding Mastery” podcast and many others, including “First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing” and Upaya Dharma Podcast. An elite ultra runner, Katie is the 2018 women's champion of Leadville Trail 100 Run. She holds course records and victories at every distance from 5K to 100 miles.
Katie lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and two daughters. In her spare time she leads girls’ trail running clubs, coaches girls lacrosse, and serves on the board of Santa Fe Lacrosse. She is currently at work on books about time and disappearing, as well as poetry and story collections. A longtime, if restless, student of Zen meditation, she is happiest practicing outside. As the poet Mary Oliver once said, “I don’t like to be indoors.”
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