In brief
Katey Schultz writes from her home in Fork Mountain, North Carolina. She has published nonfiction in newspapers, magazines, literary and international journals. Her personal narratives convey the nuances of life experience in an accessible, knowing voice. Her style is emotionally direct and builds with the pace of the narrative. Her critical essays on artists are philosophical in nature, inviting the reader to consider new possibilities.
Bio
Katey Schultz spent her childhood in Portland, Oregon, attending a Montessori elementary school and public secondary school. She majored in philosophy as an undergraduate at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where she wrote her thesis titled "An Ethic of Generosity."
In celebration of her college graduation, Katey sold her 1987 Plymouth Sundance for a one way ticket on the Green Tortoise tour bus, traveling for two weeks from San Fransisco to New York City via back roads and national parks with 36 others from all over the globe.
In 2001, she spent three months volunteering for AmeriCorps in the Berkshire Mountains followed by a ten-month AmeriCorps residential program in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Situated on the edge of Little Tupper Lake in the center of a six million acre preserve, she and twenty other volunteers built and maintained trails throughout the Adirondack State Park. Katey wrote and published several essays during her service, including an essay for The Nature Conservancy newsletter.
She spent the next four years as an educator in North Carolina, earning her Montessori Adolescent Guide Certification and publishing personal narratives on experiential education. In 2005, she received a grant to write a cultural handbook for the Arthur Morgan School, located in Celo, North Carolina.
Currently, Katey is enrolled in Pacific University's low-residential Masters in Fine Arts graduate program for nonfiction. She received a scholarship for spring term, 2007 from the Toe River Arts Council and continues to publish her essays regularly. She writes from her home at 4,000 feet near the summit of Roan Mountain in North Carolina.
