Dr. Katie Gilbert is an essay specialist at American College Consulting. 

She is Associate Professor of English at Drury University, a liberal arts college in Missouri. Katie has taught writing and literature for more than two decades. Her essays, poetry, and articles have appeared in books and magazines in the public humanities and her research on nineteenth-century literature has appeared in academic journals in the fields of British Literature and the law. She teaches college courses on essay writing, women writers, British Literature, literary theory, and poetry.

Katie began working as a writer with her first internship in 1992 at Portland Monthly Magazine while attending college in Maine. Since then, she has worked in editorial departments in both magazine and book publishing in Boston and Chicago. Katie is currently enrolled in the Copyediting Program at the University of California, San Diego. She received her B.A. in English and Spanish from Bowdoin College, her M.A. in English Literature from the University of Virginia, and her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Katie loves working with teenagers to help them think about who they are, what they value, and how they can tell their stories in writing. Katie currently lives in the Ozarks of Missouri with her two teens and her sweet dog, Cub. She loves to be outdoors as much as possible, write, read, and listen to poetry podcasts.