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Katie Booth

Katie Booth’s work has appeared in Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, The Fourth River and Vela, among other publications, and has received support from the Edward Albee Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Her essay "The Sign for This" was selected as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2016, and her first book, The Performance of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to Cure Deafness, will be published by Simon & Schuster.

OutlinesDecember 1, 2017

Belief in Action: An Interview With Marissa Landrigan

By Katie Booth

Marissa Landrigan, author of The Vegetarian’s Guide to Eating Meat, had been a vegetarian for seven years when she came to the slow realization…

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Columns, PlacedFebruary 24, 2017

People Mountain, People Sea

By Katie Booth

ne woman wanted out, but no one was sure which way was out. Someone was trying to direct people: the stage is that way,…

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FeaturesJune 29, 2015

The Sign for This

By Katie Booth

It’s said that in the old deaf boarding schools, the ones that didn’t allow Sign, the students would wait deep into the night for their moment, feigning their dreams…

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Features, UncategorizedJune 24, 2013

Forbidden

By Katie Booth

In the middle of the shoving crowd between the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, my two Chinese students stopped in hushed awe.

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