Katherine E. Schneider

Katherine E. Schneider is the Founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of The Northeast Coast literary journal and press, and she is honored to be the 2025-2027 Poet Laureate of Norwalk, Connecticut. She holds an MFA from Fairfield University’s MFA in Creative Writing program and is a co-founder and co-host of FUMFA Poets & Writers Live. In her various roles, she has organized and hosted countless online and in-person events for poets, writers, and the greater creative community. Her first poetry collection, I Used to Remember the Story of How, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2019. Her publication credits for individual poems include Ruminate, Blue Line, The Poetry Porch, The Paddock Review, Collateral, the 2023 and 2024Connecticut Literary Anthology, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, and more. She also contributed the essay on Kassia to The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline Project. Breaking the Fever is her second book of poetry, and it is the first publication of The Northeast Coast Press.