Katie Singer

Katie Singer has a Ph.D. in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University where she taught writing, literature, and African-American studies for ten years. Subsequently, Singer taught for two years at Bard High School Early College in Newark, and then as faculty at Rutgers University-Newark in the departments of history, Africana/African-American Studies and American studies. She relocated to California in 2020. She is presently teaching writing at The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.

Dr. Singer has presented at conferences, in the U.S. and abroad, upon topics that include preservation, oral history, racial justice, African-American literature, and African-American historical commemoration. Her book, Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark is due out August 2024 with Rutgers University Press. She has also co-authored the memoir of a previously incarcerated writer, presently under contract with Lived Places Publishing.