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Katy Hershberger

Katy Hershberger
Katy Hershberger is a writer and editor living in New York. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from The New School and is a news editor at Publishers Lunch. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, Slate, Longreads, and elsewhere.


Writing Someone Else’s Autofiction… When They’re a Pop Star Turned Wedding Singer

On the Unlikely Collaboration Between Novelist David Levithan and Musician Jens Lekman
August 26, 2025  By Katy Hershberger
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Five Years Later: On the Enduring Legacy of All American Boys

And Why Its Authors, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely Wish It Would Go Out of Print
September 9, 2020  By Katy Hershberger
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Rereading the Master of
‘Dying Teen’ Lit

Katy Hershberger Considers Lurlene McDaniel and the
Allure of a Problematic Genre
December 12, 2019  By Katy Hershberger
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