Katie Edkins Milligan is a writer, editor and teacher living and working in Philadelphia.

Katie’s work appears or is forthcoming in Meridian, Fiction, The Florida Review, Tahoma Literary Review and North Dakota Quarterly, and she is the 2021 recipient of the Inprint Donald Bartheleme Prize in Fiction (selected by Kevin Canty). She is at work on her first novel, a chapter of which was shortlisted for the 2024 Masters Review Novel Excerpt Contest. She served for three years as Fiction Editor at Gulf Coast and her writing has received support from the Tin House Workshop, Aspen Summer Words and the GrubStreet Short Story Incubator program. All of this follows a seven-year career in community mental health and corporate health benefit innovation.

A New England native, Katie grew up in York, Maine, a small seacoast town on the Maine/New Hampshire border that increasingly crops up in her writing. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Houston, where she received her MFA. She lives in Philly with her husband Ryan, her baby daughter Nina, and Ruby, their seven-year-old Ridgeback.