Katy Read

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Who am I

My website is www.katyread.com

My blog, "Let's All Be Perfect!" a critical look at the culture of advice and self-improvement, is at http://letsallbeperfect.wordpress.com/

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My essay "Scavengers" appears in "Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir" by Sue William Silverman.

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Moral support over beverage of choice.

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Media outlets that I currently write for

I have written for Salon, More, Brain Child, Working Mother, AARP magazine, Real Simple, River Teeth, Brevity, Minnesota Monthly, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times and other publications. I'm a former newspaper reporter, most recently (early '90s) for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

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