Katerina is a writer and early career researcher whose research spans memoir writing, speculative biography, disability, and archival research, specifically the archival traces of women. Her academic work focuses on narrative, women’s lived experience, archives, and most recently, how tech is shaped through language.
Her first book, Hysteria: A Memoir of Illness, Strength and Women’s Stories Throughout History (NewSouth), was published in 2020. Katerina completed her PhD, a hybrid memoir/biography of the first woman clown in America, in 2022.
As a creative writing scholar, Katerina writes across forms and mediums; her essays and articles have appeared in The Guardian, Meanjin, Griffith Review and Kill Your Darlings, amongst others. Katerina has received a number of fellowships, including the National Library of Australia Summer Scholarship Circus and Illinois State University Allied Arts Collection Fellowship. In 2024, she was a SA Literary Fellow at the State Library of South Australia. She is currently working on a manuscript about women and chess.