Katie Amundsen graduated from Lakeland in 2015 and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Wichita State University in 2018. At WSU, she served as Editor to the literary journals "Mikrokosmos" and "Mojo" and was awarded WSU's Fellowship in Creative Writing.

In 2017, Amundsen's poem "Whale Soup" won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs' Intro Journals Project Prize, and her poems have appeared in publications including "Swarm," "The Mid-American Review," "Vamp Cat Magazine," and "SLANT: A Journal of Poetry."

Amundsen currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for "Stoneboat," a local literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and other artworks.