In her time, writer Katie Daley has scrubbed the toilets of poets and mowed the fairways of gangsters. In between stints as a fruit picker, sidewalk busker, hotel maid, performer, teaching artist and editor, her work has appeared in High Country News, Exposition Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the ’60s and ’70s (She Writes Press), Seneca Review, Art Crimes, Slipstream, Cleveland Magazine, and After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose about School (University of Iowa Press).
Katie’s monologues have been featured on radio and television and in theaters at Cleveland’s Playhouse Square, on the Beachland Ballroom stage, the State Theater in Ithaca, New York, and the Paw Paw Playhouse in Paw Paw, Michigan.
Her chapbook of poems, Any Closer to Home, was released by Finishing Line Press in October 2023:
https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/any-closer-to-home-by-katie-daley/
Katie recently completed a memoir about the 18-month journey she took hitchhiking and migrant-working her way across the USA in 1975. Working title: Where I Started to Roam. Check out these excerpts from the memoir:
Katie’s DIY chapbooks include: Red Hot Mangoes and Voodoo Juice, a jamboree of hungry poems and spark-throwing monologues; Coyote at the Wheel, an odyssey into the personal heart of these politically absurd and disturbing times; and Venus and the Hitchhikers, featuring a tangy narrative about Venus and her right-hand man Pan, who are rowing around the world in a bright red boat in their efforts to spread some love salve on the 21st century’s first bloom of greed, fear and loneliness.
Katie has also produced two CDs: Full Blast Alive: Voices from the Ruby Side, a compilation of the sometimes rowdy, sometimes tender monologues Katie performs in the voices of female characters from around the world; and Zaggin’ Like a Vagabond—a weaving of guitars, spoken word, and song—by Drifters Inn, the band she created with her husband.
