About Katharine Duckett

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Katharine Duckett is the award-winning author of Miranda in Milan, the Shakespearean fantasy novella debut that NPR calls "intriguing, adept, inventive, and sexy." Her short fiction has appeared on Tor.com and in Uncanny, Apex, PseudoPod, and Interzone, as well as various anthologies including Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, Some of the Best from Tor.com 2020, Rebuilding Tomorrow: Anthology of Life After the Apocalypse, and Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity.

 

She is the winner of the 2022 CRAFT Amelia Gray 2K Contest and received a Golden Crown Literary Circle Award for Miranda in Milan. She served as the guest fiction editor for Uncanny's Disabled People Destroy Fantasy issue, and is an Advisory Board member for the Octavia Project. Katharine is represented by Angeline Rodriguez at WME.

 

Originally from East Tennessee, she has lived in Turkey, Kazakhstan, and New York City, and currently resides in Beacon, New York, with her wife and her cat, Rex. She has multiple epiphyseal dysplasia and is a scholar of disability studies, with a focus on disability and literature.

 

She is a graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she designed a self-directed course of study centered around creative writing and performance. She holds an M.A. from in Disability Studies from the City University of New York's School of Professional Studies.

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Katharine also works as a teaching artist and is a lifelong performer who has collaborated with Daniel Flores Dance in New York City to create multimedia theater pieces based on her fiction. Her greatest claim to fame as a child actress is that LeVar Burton once saved her from death by bee stings on the '90s CBS television show Christy. 

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