Our Team

Katherine Biers

Katherine (she/her/hers) graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University with a BA in English, and returned to Cornell to earn a PhD in American Literature. She has had a long career teaching literature, philosophy, drama, and writing to undergraduates and graduate students at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and NYU. As a teacher, Katherine loves to design and teach classes on subjects like literature and technology, post-apocalyptic drama, and the Theater of the Absurd. She enjoys helping students to see connections between literary analysis, critical thinking, writing, and personal growth in adolescence and young adulthood. As a writing tutor and executive coach, Katherine creates structured, goal-oriented environments focused equally on concrete results and the ongoing, open-ended work of self-knowledge. When she’s not tutoring, she works as a substitute English teacher and writes about American literature and modern drama for literary magazines and scholarly journals.