Katie Bowler Young is a poet, author, and community arts organizer. She’s the author of Enrique Alférez: Sculptor (The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2021), Through Water with Ease (Louisiana Literature, 2019), and State Street (Bull City Press, 2009).

Katie has published poetry and prose in Folio, LEON Literary Review, Louisiana Literature, Meridian, Midwest Quarterly, Plainsongs, Soundings East, The South Dakota Review, The Southern Review, and other publications. Her opinion writing has appeared in The Times-Picayune and she frequently writes about art and place.

Katie is a graduate the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she was awarded the Lisel Mueller Scholarship and a Friends of Writers Scholarship.

She has been a strategic leader in external relations, partnerships, and higher education for more than 21 years. Katie is operations director and interim head of university collaborations at RTI International, an independent nonprofit research institute dedicated to science that improves the human condition.