Katie Quach was born in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1980. She is the winner of Bellingham Review’s 2023 Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction and runner-up in Hunger Mountain Review’s Creative Nonfiction prize. Her story "Here Comes Trouble" was longlisted in CRAFT’s 2022 Creative Nonfiction Awards. Other work has appeared or is forthcoming in Catapult, Chestnut Review, and Past Ten.

An alum of the Tin House workshop and Community of Writers Conference, she currently serves as a fiction editor at The Rumpus and a high school mentor through the Girls E-Mentorship program. She holds a BA from Carleton College and an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is at work on her first book on second-generation Vietnamese diaspora living in Vietnam. She lives in Toronto with her family.