Episode 32: Katie Schorr | Hunter College
Katie Schorr has shoulder-length dark brown hair and brown eyes. She wears a black floral blouse.
Katie Schorr has shoulder-length dark brown hair and brown eyes. She wears a black floral blouse.

In this episode, Jared talks with Katie Schorr of Hunter College about overcoming rejection and the failure to sell her first novel, finding her voice through the writing and revising process, and navigating the MFA while raising two kids.

Katie Schorr earned her MFA in Fiction from Hunter College. She’s written for McSweeney’s and Motherly and she has also written and performed one-person shows at the UCB Theater, Ars Nova, and Joe’s Pub. She is an audiobook narrator and the mother of two young children, both of whom wish her stories were scarier. Find her at katieschorr.com.

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Mentions:

· Sasha Debevec-McKenney
· Adam Haslett
· A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
· Zadie Smith
· Kevin Wilson
· Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
· Kaj Tanaka
· Whitney Terrell
· Peter Carey
· Rivka Galchen
· Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
· Tracy O’Neill
· Roxana Robinson
· Critical Response Process by Liz Lerman
· ZZ Packer

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