.... here's who I am. 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. And zines. I love zines.

I have had work published in the Utne Reader, Bitch magazine, Adbusters, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Independent, PW, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Miami Herald, Venus zine, the Pennsylvania Gazette, the literary magazine 400 Words, and a number of other newspapers and magazines. I've published essays in books, too: The Alternative Media Handbook (Routledge), Zine Yearbook #9 (Microcosm), My Red Couch, And Other Stories On Seeking A Feminist Faith (Pilgrim Press), and Make a Zine! (Microcosm), and I contributed research to the book That's Amore: The Language of Love for Lovers of Language (Walker & Co.).

I am a contributor to the popular blog Books, Inq. I once read some of my poems on public radio. Here is an interview I gave about writing and DIY publishing; I also talked to Janine Warren, a writer and researcher based in London, for her interesting paper on digital versus print cultures.

I live in a quiet old neighborhood on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Please feel free to email me if you want to chat.

Here's another one.

p.s. Were you wondering where the la-la theory name came from? I'll be glad to tell you.