Education

• BA, Writing, University of Victoria, 2021-2025

Publications

Publication and interview titles are hyperlinks.

• "Overbite" forthcoming in Lez Spread the Word, Issue 10
• "Dog Eat Dog" in The Malahat Review, August 2025
• "Girly Girls" in Plenitude, August 2025
• "Hush" in Eavesdrop Magazine, July 2025
• "Nobody Wants To See This" in New Delta Review, June 2024
• "Twin Talk" in The New Quarterly, December 2025
• "We Were Hostages" in The Adroit Journal, October 2024
• "A History of Loneliness" in The /tƐmz/ Review, August 2023
• "Mona Lisa, Naked" in Canthius, July 2023
• "Mary Mary" in Literary Heist, June 2023
• "Virgil" in Frighten the Horses, April 2023
• "Anatomy Practice" in This Side of West Issue 21, March 2023
• "Lichtenberg Figures" in PRISM International Issue 61.1, Fall 2022

Awards

• Finalist for The Adroit Prizes, judged by Kaveh Akbar and Ocean Vuong, 2024
• Finalist for The Writers' Union of Canada Short Prose Competition, 2025
• Finalist for TNQ's Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award, 2024
• Recipient of W.P. Kinsella Scholarship in Fiction by the University of Victoria, 2024
• Recipient of Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award (JCURA), University of Victoria, 2024
• Recipient of Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award (VKURA), University of Victoria, 2023
• Winner of This Side of West's poetry & prose contest, 2022
• Runner-up for PRISM International's Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V Short Forms, 2022
• Shortlisted for This Side of West's poetry & prose contest, 2021

Interviews (Conducted)

• "Community—Human & Ecological: Courtney Bill interviews Katherine J Barrett" for The Malahat Review, 2025
• Interview with Sydney Hegele for This Side of West, 2024

Interviews (Recipient)

• "People Are Always Wanting: Katherine J Barrett interviews Courtney Bill" for The Malahat Review, 2025

Editorial Experience

• Copy editor for At Bay Press (2024 - 2025)
• Editor and researcher for "Octopus Ocean" by Mark Leiren-Young, published by Orca Book Publishers (2025)
• Co-editor in chief of erato literary magazine (2022 - 2025)
• Managing editor for The Warren Undergraduate Review (2021 - 2025)
• Freelance writer and researcher for Future Proof (2024)
• Reader for PRISM International (December 2022 - 2023)
• Reedsy prompts judge (2021 - 2022)