About Katie Gutierrez Painter

Katie Gutierrez Painter earned a BA in English from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX, with additional training in creative writing and editing and publishing from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is now a Creative Writing (Fiction) M.F.A. candidate at Texas State University.

Prior to founding Legacy Editorial Consulting in 2007, Katie spent equal amounts of time as a creative writer, publicist, and journalist. Working in publicity with Phenix and Phenix Literary Publicists -- an Austin literary publicity firm responsible for catapulting 27 books to bestseller status since its inception in 1994 -- she became intimately familiar with marketing diverse genres of literature, and has adapted some of those publicity strategies for Legacy's diverse corporate clients. Between 2005-2007, she worked as a reporter and editorial assistant for People magazine, where she reported on news stories that consistently caught the attention of a nation.

Today, Katie is a regular contributor to business trade publications such as American Builders Quarterly, Green Business Quarterly, Hispanic Executives Quarterly, and Growing Wealth. Her fiction and creative nonfiction can be seen in Open Windows Anthology (Ghost Road Press, 2008), Chicken Soup for the Soul (Health Communications, 2008), The Scruffy Dog Review and Narrative magazine. Through Legacy, she has collaborated with dozens of emerging and established authors to prepare their work for publication, and most clients' books can now be found on Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. She has also co-written two books: the engaging Duckey and the Ocean Protectors with John Sexton, and the innovative, revealing Failure Party, with Corey Blake. Katie can't believe she's lucky enough to do what she loves every day.

For more information on Katie, please e-mail her at katie@legacyeditorialconsulting.com.