About
Katharine Allen Tillman
b. 1983, Statesboro, Georgia. I grew up next to a pecan orchard, made intricate collages in shoeboxes, and went to elementary school dressed as Flannery O’Connor when we had to impersonate our favorite famous Georgian. Since leaving the South, I’ve spent most of my time in New York City, where I work in a visual perception lab at New York University. Although I’ve never really gotten used to being called a scientist, my work on cognitive processes underlying object recognition and reading has appeared in Nature Neuroscience and some other places. After several years of part-time study at NYU, I completed my BA, summa cum laude, in Psychology, with minors in Creative Writing and Classics.
I’m a Catholic convert, and I’ve been practicing yoga and Zen Buddhist meditation for almost ten years.
In other stages of my life, I’ve also been certified to teach yoga in Washington, DC, and spent 6 months hitch-hiking around the country and pan-handling on street corners. I’ve been publishing my journals online since 1997, but my e-popularity has been going downhill since high school.
Download my vita in PDF.
email kat@villanelle.org
join the inner sanctum mailing list