Biography

B.A. Hope College
M.F.A. Roosevelt University

Katie Budris serves as the Program Coordinator for the Master of Arts in Writing. She earned her M.F.A. in poetry and is the author of two chapbooks: Mid-Bloom (Finishing Line Press, 2021) and Prague in Synthetics (Finishing Line Press, 2015). Her poems have appeared in over a dozen literary magazines, most recently Deep Wild Journal, River and South Review, Philadelphia Stories, and Border Crossing. Katie also serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Glassworks, an internationally circulated literary magazine housed in the MA in Writing program. In 2023, she was inducted as an honorary member of Tau Sigma, in recognition of her support of students applying to the Accelerated Dual Degree program in Writing Arts. Find her online at: http://www.katiebudris.com/

Courses

Creative Writing II; Writing Poetry; The Writer's Mind; Writing Creative Nonfiction; Editing the Literary Journal; Seminar I & II, Publishing Creative Work; list graduate course last as: Editing the Literary Journal (graduate), Seminar I & II (graduate)

Research Interests

Poetry, Creative Writing, Literary Magazines, Creative Writing Editing/Publishing

Publications

Budris, K., Lemerond, S., McCall, J., & Southwick, K. (2024, February 7-10). Experiential Learning, Multimodality, & the Publishing Classroom, Oh My! [Conference presentation]. Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Kansas City, MO.

"Mid-Bloom" (poetry chapbook; Finishing Line Press, 2021)

"Prague in Synthetics" (poetry chapbook, Finishing Line Press, 2015)

"Dawn Paddle" (Deep Wild Journal, 2021)

"Rain Turns to Snow" (River and South Review, 2020).