Author Talks
Sebastopol: April 13 at 2 p.m. at Third Pig Bar at 116 South Main Street. I will be on the Lit Crawl Sebastopol author panel “Out of Line: Rebellious Characters and Risk-taking Writers”.
If you missed my earlier events, both my conversation with author Dr. Joan Steinau Lester at Alta Mesa Center for the Arts and with Mandy Jackson Beverly at Chaucer’s bookstore are on YouTube. Watch them here and here respectively. And you can order a signed copy here.
Email me if you would like me to talk to your organization or club.
NEWS
Katya was featured on News Channel 12, 3, 11. She spoke with Brendan O’Meara of the Creative Nonfiction Podcast about crafting her longform story for Atavist Magazine. Katya spoke about Straitjackets and Lunch Money on the California Sun Podcast. Straitjackets and Lunch Money was named one of Alta‘s 16 books to read in September and featured in their Bound Together guide of the best new books on the West.
The San Francisco Chronicle called Straitjackets “incredibly affecting“. Kirkus Reviews called it “harrowing but engrossing” and included it in their February 2024 magazine. River Teeth also had nice things to say. Katya spoke about Straitjackets with The Reluctant Therapist. She was also on KCLU, KVEC, KCBX, The Bookshop Podcast, the Donna Seebo Show and Journeys of Discovery. Shepherd featured Katya’s 3 top book picks for 2023.
From Chernobyl with Love was awarded the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Academic Press. Chernobyl was on the Bookable Space podcast. Exiled was featured in Alta Journal’s 13 books to read for March and in a Faculti video. Exiled was also featured on the Bookshop Podcast. Katya was featured in the 2023 Bay Area Book Festival roundup, Santa Barbara News-Press and on KCLU.
Katya reported on the difficulty of writing about the war in Ukraine for LitHub. She was profiled in Alta Magazine after winning a Society for Features Journalism Excellence-in-Features Award.
Los Angeles Public Library and San Francisco Public Library both featured talks by Katya. The Ukrainian Institute of America included Katya in their virtual book presentation book series.