Katie Henken Robinson

Katie Henken Robinson is a Boston-based writer and the Senior Editor at Electric Literature. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Masters Review, Split Lip Magazine, and The Southwest Review, among others. A 2025 Masters Review Best Emerging Writer, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow, and winner of the Tennessee Williams Festival Fiction Contest, her short stories have been named finalists for numerous prizes and awards, including The Stephen Dixon Fiction Prize, The Perkoff Prize, and the American Literary Review Awards. She holds an MFA in fiction from Boston University, where she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Translation Prize for her work in Italian to English literary translation.

Her novel-in-progress, Terrestrials, follows a fringe group of alien “experiencers” who call themselves the Terrestrial Friends. Told over 30 years through the eyes of the group’s members alongside their spouses, children, and friends, the novel is an absurdist yet deeply human exploration of community, belonging, and how the fractures of our modern world can lead us on a desperate search for meaning.

Katie is also at work on a memoir-in-essays centered on women’s and girl’s rage.