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Katherine Factor is an author, poet, and editor. Her debut poetry book, A Sybil Society (University of Nevada Press), is the 2020 winner of the Test Site Poetry Series Book Contest. Her interactive, mid-grade Choose Your Own Adventure novels include Spies: Mata Hari, Spies: Harry Houdini, and Spies: Spy for Cleopatra.

Her poems and prose can be found online and in print at TYPO, Wave Conjunctions, Interim, femaleandfungi.com, Rescue Press, TIGHT, Wesleyan Books, Quarterly West, Poets for Living Waters, Occupy Poetry, DIAGRAM, the Colorado Review, and at Coldfront’s Poets off Poetry. My audio work lives at Soundcloud, WFMU’s, textsound, and The Conversant.

Katherine earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa and has held positions as the Poet-in-Residence at Idyllwild Arts Academy, Interlochen Arts Academy, and as assistant editor of inter|rupture. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Concordia University, Interlochen, and Idyllwild Arts academies, as well as for summer programs at Northwestern’s Center for Talent Development.

Awards & Grants

Interim’s TEST SITE Poetry Prize Winner

PANK First Book Award Semi-Finalist

Cleveland State University First Book Poetry Award Semi-Finalist

Madeline Plonsker Lake Forest Emerging Writers’ Award

Beyond Baroque Poetry Prize

Iowa Arts Council Grant

Grinnell College Presidential Grant

Arts Enterprise Laboratory for Publishing Young Writers

Residencies

Idyllwild Arts Academy - Poet-in-Residence

Interlochen Arts Academy - Poet-in-Residence

Vermont Studio Center

Community of Writers

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Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Spy for Cleopatra by Katherine Factor takes YOU to ancient Egypt where you're faced with a mission larger than any ancient pyramid! You must save the Great Library of Alexandria, help at the Pharos Lighthouse, stop Caesar and his takeover, travel the Nile River, visit Rome, and explore the mysteries of Egyptian mythology and pyramids―all without becoming lost in time― or worse, mummified! 9-12 year old readers travel back in time to try and change history and must choose what happens next in the story.

Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Spy for Cleopatra is an interactive adventure book in which YOU decide what happens next.

It is circa 400 A.D. and you are a young person living in ancient Egypt. You are studying with the powerful philosopher and mathematician, Hypatia. Hypatia's formulas and inventions will change the course of history, but she can't let go of an event from the past. She needs you to travel back in time to the age of Cleopatra in order to change history so the Library of Alexandria can be saved from destruction by fire. Can you do what's needed to preserve the world's most important knowledge?

For readers who enjoyed other titles from the Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES series, including: Harry Houdini by Katherine Factor, James Armistead Lafayette by Kyandreia Jones, Mata Hari by Katherine Factor, and Noor Inayat Khan by Rana Tahir.

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\"Excellent book! Our 11 year old daughter loved it and learned a lot!\" - Susannah F.

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Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Harry Houdini by Katherine Factor puts YOU in the shoes of America’s first famous magician, Harry Houdini, also known as “The King of Cuffs.” 9-12 year old readers will enchant audiences across the United States with death-defying stunts, live escapes, and thrilling face-offs with local police.

Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Harry Houdini is an interactive adventure book in which YOU decide what happens next.

You are a famous magician. You are known to challenge local police to defy your skills by locking you up. Reporters follow this story, and so do jealous rivals. But one follower of your magic act has a serious request: with all of your sleight of hand and intelligence, will you, Harry Houdini, the famous magician, become a spy to learn information abroad and help the United States?

For readers who enjoyed other titles from the Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES series, including: James Armistead Lafayette by Kyandreia Jones, Mata Hari by Katherine Factor, and Noor Inayat Khan by Rana Tahir.

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\"Magical adventures... Don’t let this book escape you!!\" - Jose C

\"Our 4th and 7th graders read this book together and had so much fun choosing the different paths while learning about Houdini!\" - Susannah F.

\"A hit at the library!\" - Karen, Walton Library

\"I used to love reading these books when my children would check them out from the library and this one, was no exception. I choose my first path through the book, based on what I’d want to do and then, I went back and reread the book a few times, choosing paths that were totally different. I was Harry Houdini, a magician with big dreams!\" - Live O.

\"I am a CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE nerd. ...this continuation of them is excellent. It's super fun and I got to come back from the dead which I don't think ever happened during the older series.\" - Kales

\"Great combination of facts and adventure. Katherine Factor provides enough information to make you want to check out every one of the options. Partway through reading the book, I was already delving into online resources to read more about the facts she was weaving into the story. The spy series of Choose Your Own Adventure books reveals the intriguing history of undercover work. This was my second purchase from the series, and I’m eager to read more.\" - Sherry H.

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Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Mata Hari by Katherine Factor takes YOU around the world and back in time. 9-12 year old readers will enact the early life of an actual historic spy, Margaretha Zelle, who was best known by her stage name, \"Mata Hari.” More than a dancer and spy, Mata Hari was an intelligent and courageous feminist; a resourceful survivor; and an adventurous spirit who lived dangerously.

Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Mata Hari is an interactive gamebook in which YOU decide what happens next.

The year is 1915, and YOU are young Margaretha Zelle, a world-famous dancer from the Netherlands. You have just arrived in Bali, Indonesia with your dance troupe when your best friend Althea goes missing. As a master of tongues and disguises, who better to save her? Your trek through the mysterious Balinese jungle might lead you to a top secret spy school, but if you leave now, you will miss your chance to audition for the performance of a lifetime.

For readers who enjoyed other titles from the Choose Your Own Adventure series including: Secret of the Ninja by Jay Leibold, Cup of Death by Shannon Gilligan, and Terror on the Titanic by Jim Wallace.

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\"Can I give 6 stars? [...] The author has the rare gift of being able to write something that works for both children and adults.\" - Daniel

\"My 9 and 10 year olds love it!\" - Brigit S.

\"...a brilliant, dramatic, and mischievous story... It's both hilarious and sad; and a real interactive adventure for kids and adults alike. Each decision you make in the story leads you to more absurdly real choices Margaretha has made in her own life, dreamy fantasies, spiritual journeys or historical truths, among other misadventures. It's so much fun and will have you jumping all over the book, reading as each choice you make blossoms or wilts. Katherine Factor is an inventive writer, crafting each piece of this puzzle with seamless detail. Her writing makes complex historical concepts easy to read and understand without misrepresenting them. She's also very witty and will have you chuckling all the way to the end-- then you start all over again! 10/10 absolutely recommend. Love it!\" - Austin B.

\"...intriguing and suspenseful.\" - TA

\"Choose Your Own Adventure is the perfect format for Mata Hari’s story. As I selected different pathways, I came to appreciate the complex set of twists in her life. The story will provide any reader with a fascinating opportunity to plunge into the World War 1 era.\" - Sherry H.

\"...amazing writing with beautiful prose. [...] Very clever!\" - Blanca M.

\"Brings me back to my childhood. I've been reading this at bedtime to my 6 year old. It's a little too advanced for her but she loves the ability to start and stop the story. So fun and I want to get another one in the series!\" - Anonymous

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I'd love to hear from you. Drop me an email using the contact form below. You can also connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, and Goodreads.

I am currently available for speaking events. For more information about my events and workshops, please visit my School Visits page. Please contact me directly via the form below for availability and rates.

To inquire about my book coaching, editing, and copy and ghostwriting services, please visit:KfactorWrites.com.

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POETRY

\"Mistress of Honey,\" Interim, May 3, 2021

\"Tripod Lockdown,\" Interim, May 3, 2021

\"Mycenae, Founded by Fungi,\" Interim, May 3, 2021

\"Helmet Dressing Room,\" Interim, May 3, 2021

“How a Poem Originates,” TYPO Mag, 2017

\"Mycopoetry,\" femaleandfungi.com, June 14, 2016

\"Two Poems,\" Wave Composition, Issue 10, Sept 2015

\"Puritan & Thera,\" textsound.org, issue 14

\"Mycene & Breaking the Bounds & Diophilia,\" H_ngm_n, 14

\"Lady with a Lamp,\" & \"Erigone,\" Interim, 2014

\"Fly In Flies Out, An Audio Convo w/ AB Gorham,\" The Conversant, March 2013

\"Animous Uni State,\" Occupoetry, Jan. 02, 2012

“The Day After,” thermos, Fall 2011

“Tympanon,” Quarterly West, Summer 2011

“Mycophilia,” Colorado Review Podcast, June 2011

“Queen of the Night,” Colorado Review Podcast, June 2011

“Mycophilia,” Colorado Review, Spring 2011

“Queen of the Night,” Colorado Review, Spring 2011

\"What You See is an Ancient Life,\" Squaw Valley Review, Spring 2011

\"Library & Hammer,\" inter|rupture: a journal of poetry & art, 2011

\"Channel,\" Poets for Living Waters, 2011

\"Delos,\" The Equalizer, 2010

\"Thera,\" The Equalizer, 2010

\"Membrane,\" THERMOS mag, 2010

\"Antechamber,\" THERMOS mag, 2010

“Abrasion,” Generations Literary Magazine, Fall 2010

“Beauty,” Generations Literary Magazine, Fall 2010

“Ombros,” Badlands, Summer 2010

“Joan D’arc,\" Badlands, Summer 2010

\"Para Sol,” Badlands, Summer 2010

“Nepenthe,” Re:Union, Summer 2010

“Membrane,” thermos, Spring 2010

“Antechamber,” thermos, Spring 2010

“Coddled,\" Colorado Review, Spring 2010

\"Now,\" Colorado Review, Spring 2010

“Crepuscular,” Tight Journal, 2009

“Aurora,” Tight Journal, 2009

“Codex,” incl. Editors’ Page, Dunes Review, 2009

“A,” incl. Editors’ Page, Dunes Review, 2009

“Stonehenge,” Interlochen Review, Spring 2009

“Semele,” incl. Editors' Page, Colorado Review, Spring 2008

“So Schoene Hell,” incl. Editors' Page, Colorado Review, Spring 2008

“Puritan” incl. Editors' Page, Colorado Review, Spring 2008

\"Materia Prima,\" Diagram, 2008

\"Aftermath,\" The Daily Palette, 2008

PROSE

\"Brenda Hillman's Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire,\" an online Reader's Companion, Wesleyan Press

\"Phosphorescent's Song for Zula as Duende, the Roem, and Dark Sounds I'd Creep With,\" a lyric photo-essay, Coldfront, Jan 10, 2014

“Letter to My Skin,” The Grinnell Review, 1995

INTERVIEWS

Time for the Grind, Parallax Online, Apr 1, 2013

A Conversation with Kazim Ali, on his groundbreaking book, Bright Felon, Wesleyan Press, 2011

Safety Book 13: Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Rescue Press, August 2011

Minoans, Tar Sands, & Astral Projective Verse, THERMOS, November 2011

COLLABORATIONS

In the Great Woods, translation with Doris Kareva, Estonian poet, in response to shared midsummer holidays, from eXchanges, 2008

An Invisible City, multimedia project, Idyllwild Arts, 2011

Poem-age, Music engineered by Christopher Jett (originally recorded at Don Put Studios, Idyllwild, CA), 2010

Seed, Interlochen Arts Academy: A Night of Neo-Romanticism, with students from Interlochen Creative Writing Seminar & the Interlochen Choir; John Bragle conducting, 2009

Chicago River installation, draft of moveable sculpture poems, in collaboration with artist Andy Hall, 2008

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Katherine loves to share poetry and prose with budding writers! She is a writer, editor, and educator who has mentored young writers for decades, having taught at Idyllwild Arts Academy, Interlochen Arts Academy, and in summer programs.

Katherine is always happy to speak with your students and is available or in-person or online visits. She can tailor her presentations and workshops to suit your needs and is also available for virtual visits.

Her Presentations Include:

WORKSHOPS

Intro to Poetry
Fun with Fiction
Personal Essay
How to Write Interactive Fiction
Fairy Tales
Mythology
Writing about Place
Music as Literature
Hybrid Forms
Writing and Art

ONLINE CLASSES & CAMPS

Creative Writing Club for Kids
Writing SPIES
Writing Choose Your Own Adventure

To Book an Event:

Katherine is currently available for school, library, and virtual events. Please email her via her contact form for availability and rates.

Testimonials:

\"We appreciated your enthusiasm in sharing about Choose Your Own Adventure books with our students. Over 200 of our middle school students participated on zoom and more watched on YouTube. They enjoyed hearing your reading from the Spy for Cleopatra book. You've inspired future authors by answering their questions about the process of authoring books in this genre and providing a template for them to create their own stories.\" – Alicia Johnson, School Counselor

Activities & Resources:

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BOOK TITLE Coloring Pages

BOOK TITLE Classroom Discussion Guide

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The Broken Kiss

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Join author Katherine Factor for a live Choose Your Own Adventure Zoom event where she will read from her new book, SPIES: Harry Houdini and YOU will make the choices.

This is family-friendly event for all ages showcasing interactive fiction by a local author. Fun for all! Signed copies of the book will be available through the Rose City Book Pub.

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Join us for an Instagram Live event with author Katherine Factor, featuring her Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Harry Houdini on the Rediscovered Books Caldwell Instagram Page!

Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Harry Houdini takes YOU to stages around the world—from Paris to Moscow, Coney Island to San Francisco—wowing audiences with your death-defying stunts and magic tricks. But that’s not all that Houdini was up to at the turn of the century...Will YOU agree to a lifetime of spying for the US and British intelligence agencies or is your magic routine life threatening enough?

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Contact me about tutoring or group classes for your 9-15 year old! All courses are designed to encourage thinking, research skills, revising, and fun with writing!

WRITING SPIES: Study spies and spy gear of the past and present, and explore spy stories with a published author and WWI spy story author. Through free-writing, prompts, and poetry exercises, write stories or plays about characters who live in two worlds. Invent a super smart sixth-grader who secretly spies for the FBI, or a double agent working on behalf of the enemy. Choose to perform your masterpiece at the end of the week. . . or keep it top secret!

INTERACTIVE GAME STORIES: Will your reader pick peril or paradise? Dive into a writing workshop where brainstorming meets adventure and results in a \"branching story\" in which your reader controls the characters' fate. Explore genres including realistic and speculative fiction, fantasy and science fiction—and classic stories in which characters choose what to do or where to go at the end of each chapter. Develop your research, writing, and creativity skills under the guidance of a published interactive game novelist!

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Well, cuffs! That is a wrap. Many thanks to all the hosts for the following online READINGS & EVENTS:

Rose City Book Pub, Portland, OR., May 31, 2020, 2 pm PCT

Rediscovered Books, Boise, ID., May 20, 2020, 4 pm (MST)

Malaprop’s Bookstore & Cafe, Asheville, NC., May 12, 2020, 3 pm (EST)

Books are Magic, Brooklyn, NY, April 30, 2020 3 pm (EST)

Capricho’s Books, Bel Air, MD., April 26, 2020, 4 pm (EST)

Tubby and Coo’s, New Orleans, LA, April 25, 2020 6 pm (CST)

Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO, April 23, 2020 5 pm (MST)

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Mata Hari has been busy, dancing with this book all around the country. Much gratitude to hosts and organizers of these wonderful READINGS and EVENTS.

Lycee Francais de Chicago Reading Night, Jan 24, 2020, 5:30 pm

National Unpublished Writers’ Day @Clark County Historical Museum, Vancouver, WA., Jan 25, 2020

LIT CRAWL Portland, CENTRL OFFICE: Portland, OR., Nov. 8, 2019, 8 pm

UCSD New Writing Series, San Diego, CA., Geisel Library: Nov. 20, 2019, 6 pm

Ukiah Branch Library, Ukiah, CA., Sept. 22, 2019, 3 pm

Contra Costa County Library, Clayton, CA., Sept. 24, 2019, 4 pm

Traverse City Area Library, Traverse City, MI., July 9, 2019,11 am

Writer’s House Reading @ Interlochen Arts Summer Camp, MI., July 5, 2019, 1 pm

Book Launch @ Rose City Book Pub, Portland, OR., May 19, 2019, 2 pm

Mata Hari @ Powell’s City of Books, Portland, OR., May 18, 2019, 2 pm

Author visit @Hawthorne School, Chicago, IL.,May 11, 2019 2 pm

Northwest Academy, Portland, OR., May 4, 2019, 1 pm

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Things changed so quickly I couldn’t wrap my head around what had happened. Just an hour ago, we were walking down the cold street, the stars illuminating our path as we laughed swaying slightly from the alcohol in our system. It was just enough to keep us warm and jolly. It was perfect. He was perfect. Every moment had been perfect. The light night drizzle led him to wrap his arm around me, and I welcomed his embrace leaning closer into him. Courage powered by vodka still freely dancing in my body.

We walked down the street to my place. The same path I had walked every night for the past six months next to him. No, not him, the man that currently had his arm around me. Him, the one I dare not speak about, or even think of his name. The one that scarred my soul deeper than the skin that covered my body. I shivered with this thought bringing my body closer to the handsome man next to me,pulling me even closer.

I could see the red door getting closer with each step we took. Should I invite him in? I debated. The thought teasing me, but the warmth of his body next to mine clearly claiming the answer. I wanted it. I needed it. As I fumbled with my keys like a jittery teen age girl, I felt his strong hand wrap around my waist and pull me close to him. His other hand at the nape of my neck threading his fingers through my hair. I was flush to his chest, my nipples harden with the pressure against his warm body, desire taking over me. I looked up at him and closed my eyes when I felt his soft lips covering mine. He easily held the weight of my body when my legs gave not being able to hold me anymore. Time stood still. When he slowly pulled back, I could hear my heart beat strong and fast. And then, silence. I could not articulate a sound much less a word. Finally something audible revealed itself in some sort of grunt that came from deep in my throat making him smile at the absurdity of the noise I made.

Then, I simultaneously opened both, the red door and my heart, inviting him in. He did not hesitate following in without even asking...

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