My name is Katie Haegele. My last name comes from the topographic word hagen, which meant “hedge,” “enclosure,” or “protected place” in Middle High German, and I pronouce it hayg-uh-lee. In college I studied linguistics, and I’m still very interested in the thing some people think makes us human. (Language, that is. I happen to think that treating other people and living creatures with kindness is what makes us human, but that rules out certain people, doesn’t it?) I like to write creative nonfiction things best, I think; maybe poems. I also like to write stories that are mostly true, stories that are mostly made-up, and zines. I love zines. I have published my non-zine writing in newspapers, magazines, journals, and books, and I once read some of my poems on public radio. I live in a quiet old neighborhood near Philadelphia. Please feel free to write to me.