Pronouns: she/her

Katherine Cusumano is a journalist, essayist, and teaching artist whose work focuses on the intersections of culture and the outdoors. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Outside Magazine, Bon Appétit, and beyond, and she is a regular contributor to the New York Times for Kids and W Magazine. For her work, she has received funding and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, the Spring Creek Project, Hypatia-in-the-Woods, and others. She holds a BA in comparative literature from Brown University and an MFA in nonfiction writing from Oregon State University, where she was the recipient of the 2024 Creative Writing Award for Nonfiction.