
Katie Coyle is the author of popular YA novel, Vivian Apple at the End of the World.
Role Call is a Petal + Sass blog section featuring interviews with professional young women occupying diverse careers – and their advice to teens.
Name: Katie Coyle
Age: 29
College & major: Marymount Manhattan College, English Literature
Graduate school & concentration: University of Pittsburgh, MFA in Creative Writing
Past jobs: I have worked at a movie theater, a boardwalk bookstore, a video store, as a personal assistant to a very wealthy woman’s personal assistant, a babysitter, a resident advisor, a writing tutor to student athletes, and as a temporary receptionist at various investment banks and non-profits.
Current occupation: Writer, Vivian Apple At the End of the World