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Katie Ashlyn Collins is a playwright dramaturg, and scholar. She grew up in Laurel Hill, North Carolina and graduated from Scotland High School in 2015 as class valedictorian. She then went on to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she received a BA in Music and Dramatic Art. During her time there, she was awarded the Old Well Scholarship, became a Buckley Public Service Scholar, and completed her honors thesis: "Same Trailer, Different Park: Small Towns on the 20th Century American Stage".

After Carolina, Katie went on to receive her Masters in Theater at Binghamton University in 2022 completing a Master's Thesis which was her show, Maared, which has since been given staged reading at both the Gruber Theater in New York and the Sunrise Theater in North Carolina. She has worked as stage manager, costume crew, scene shop assistant, sound operator, assistant director, and whatever else was thrown at her in time working backstage at Scotland High School, Playmakers Repertory Theatre, Richmond Community Theatre, Binghamton University, and Sunrise Theater. She won Volunteer of the Year for the 2020-2021 season at Richmond Community Theater where she served on the board for five years serving briefly as Board President and, later, director.

Katie was set to have her work debut in April of 2020 with her work Cannon, but it was cancelled due to the pandemic. Her first staged work, The New Twenties, was produced virtually in January 2020 with RCT. RCT would also be where her plays The Ladybug Inn and Marley would be produced in 2022 and 2023 respectively. Her radio play, Time and a Half was produced at the Sunrise Theater in 2024. From 2023-2025, she served as the Operations Manager at the Sunrise Theater. Since 2023, she's served as the Box Office Manager at The Carolina Philharmonic, where she’s also participated in their Mozart’s Requiem choir.

Katie’s full list of plays includes High School Revisited, To the Devil, Cannon, The New Twenties, Sympathy for Judas, Maared, The Ghosts and the Green Bananas, Out of Town, The Ladybug Inn, Marley, Time and a Half, and the Masterpiece. She’s also published one book of poetry, A Wrap Dress, and has just finished writing her first book, The Other Side.

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Tupelo Press provides the canvas; I bring my words, accompanied by a cohort of fine poets, writing thirty poems in thirty days, all ours to edit and submit as we wish. 30/30 poems have been taken by over 200 journals and featured in over 40 published chapbooks, all so Tupelo Press can keep publishing exquisite and diverse voices that might never be heard otherwise.

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