Katie Arnold-Ratliff - Editor

I’m an award-winning writer and magazine editor, a published novelist and ghostwriter, and an experienced refiner of book-length manuscripts. I'm also very nice (I know how hard it is to write!), and perhaps annoyingly thorough. (But that's a good thing, I swear.) I served as an editor at O, The Oprah Magazine for eleven years, and am now the Senior Features Editor at Parents. My novel, Bright Before Us, was published in 2011 (I just finished a second). I’ve also ghostwritten four books, and written extensively for O and Parents as well as Slate, Salon, Time, Tin House, Runner's World, The Believer, Wired, New York, and the New York Times Book Review, and was anthologized in Best American Food Writing 2013. (The essay was about a cookbook based on the TV show Friends. No, really.) I’ve helped countless fellow writers refine and perfect their short stories and novel drafts prior to publication, and I look forward to doing the same for you. Let's get to work.