Bio

Katie Snyder is a retired psychologist—up for an adventure since her college days as one of the first, pioneering female undergraduates at Yale. She lives in California with her cat, golden retriever, and husband, the graphic design student who created the custom art for her dissertation. 

 

Before Covid their adventures included safaris. Now Katie's adventures include learning with her dog how to compete in agility—both of them for the first time—and working on getting both memoir and picture books published. When she’s not running around with her dog, she’s baking up a storm, which is especially popular with her grandchildren. 

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Her picture books take advantage of her training in psychology: they are often humorous, but always with a message. Her nonfiction is lyrical. Look for the synopses in her Projects section under Picture Books.

 

For adults, she has written What to Expect When You’re Expecting Breast Cancer, a humorous medical information memoir she expects to publish. Excerpts from this book have been shortlisted for the 2023 Fish Memoir Anthology Prize, won third place in the 2022 Women’s National Book Association-SF Effie Lee Morris contest, runner- up in the 2023 Q1 WOW!WomenOnWriting contest—and been published on both Quail Bell and The Muffin, WOW’s blog, which gets 30,000 unique visitors each month.

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During 40 years in private practice she collaborated with MDs, so when she got breast cancer, understanding her medical care—and explaining it—was less of a stretch for her than it would be for most cancer patients.

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If you would like to be placed on a waitlist for when What to Expect When You're Expecting Breast Cancer is published, click on the Breast cancer section under Projects in the menu. The form is at the bottom of the page, at the end of the Table of Contents.

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