I work with writers across genres and at all stages. It’s incredibly gratifying to see ideas transform on the page and into published text. Please feel free to get in touch via my contact page or email me at kaitlinwisel@gmail.com for inquiries.

Services: partial reads, full reads, written feedback, in-person or virtual meetings, one-on-one coaching, extensive line editing 
Genres: short stories, novels, non-fiction, memoir, poetry; query letters
Rate: $70/hr with sliding scale available
About the Instructor: Kate Wisel is the author of Driving in Cars with Homeless Men, winner of the 2019 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Min Jin Lee. Her writing can be found in places that include Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Hobart, Tin House, The Best Small Fictions 2019, Redivider (as winner of the Beacon Street Prize), W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction America and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the “Poetry on the T” prize and the Marcia Keach Prize. She was a Carol Houck fiction fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been awarded scholarships at the Wesleyan Writer’s Conference, Tin House Writer’s Workshop, Squaw Valley Writer’s Workshop, Juniper Institute, Writing x Writer’s and elsewhere. She works as an assistant to music critic Jim DeRogatis and teaches at the Adroit summer mentorship program, Loyola University and Columbia College Chicago where she teaches graduate fiction workshop, publishing and literature courses. She is currently in development on a television series and is represented by Stephanie Delman at Greenburger Associates. For film/TV, she is represented by Hilary Zaitz Michael at WME.