Katie Tandy is a memoirist, editor, playwright, and digital media entrepreneur. She is a human dedicated to moving the needle towards justice. The former cofounding editor of three feminist online publications – Ravishly, The Establishment and PULP – Katie is a veteran alt-weekly journalist, with work appearing in SFWeekly, East Bay Express, The Arc, KQED, Dialogue magazine, Feministing, HuffPo, Oakland magazine, Time Out New York magazine and a whole host of literary journals including Quiet Lightning, Writing Without Walls, and The Write Club. She’s written on everything from architecture and amnesia to fashion, food and falconry; she is particularly invested in the intersection of art and social justice and the human body as a playground of politics. Katie recently joined Public Rights Project as a managing editor and launched an in-house publication — THE PUBLIC — on workers’ rights. She is the recipient of the Turkeyland Cove Foundation and Hambidge writing residencies, and a 2021 finalist with Blackacre.  In her spare time she fronts the rock band The Shattucks, devours paperbacks, and cooks a damn fine spaghetti sauce. She lives and writes in Oakland, California.