Katie Schwartz is a comedy writer and an essayist, among other writerly things.
For Zouch Magazine, she interviews pioneers in counterculture and their extraordinary contribution (AKA) “Zouch Q.” Katie super loves this; the good folks at Zouch and the (generous) interviewees for granting her this wonderful opportunity.
Thanks to the hospitable scissorheads at Mock Paper Scissors, Katie gets to wax un-philosophic about satire, bad ads, GOP retardaree, and so much more.
Katie’s work has been featured in Ostrich Ink, Monkeybicycle, Dirty Humor Issue #5, Farmhouse Magazine, Winner of the 2006 Editor’s Choice Awards, Girlistic Magazine, Tastes like Chicken, and 6S, among other fabulous publications. You can read her previous daily rants about life, love or lack thereof and social commentary right here or at her former blog, All the Way from Oy to Vey, to stay abreast of her nonsense.
As an aside, the song “As Time Goes By”, creeps her out, seriously, don’t send her the song.
Katie began writing by performing stand-up comedy, which is ironic considering her acute stage fright. She performed at Stand Up New York, New York Comedy Club, Boston Comedy Club, The Comedy Store and several other clubs that were kind enough to allow her to vomit all things neurotic. Many of her essays have debuted at Comedy Central’s Sit-n-Spin Writer’s Series (and she is so very grateful for that). Katie was also a proud participant in Hollywood Hell House and the 2008 Pilcrow Lit Fest as a Panelist and Reader.
Can we be done with third person yet? Almost. Last paragraph.
Katie is also the Founder of Dear Thyroid™, a literary support community. Patients with thyroid cancers and thyroid diseases write love and hate letters to their thyroids, among other literary works. Additionally, Dear Thyroid™ features ongoing columns by some of the finest and funniest writers, as well as medical professionals who guest blog about hormones, health, nutrition, fitness and everything in between.
