Katie Kitamura (born 1979) is an American novelist, journalist, and art critic.
[2] Katie Kitamura was born in Sacramento, California[3] in 1979 to a family of Japanese origin,[4] and raised in Davis, where her father Ryuichi was a professor at UC Davis Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
[12] Her first novel, The Longshot, published in 2009, is about the preparation undertaken by a fighter and his trainer ahead of a championship bout against a famous opponent.
[9] Kitamura's second novel, Gone to the Forest, published in 2013, is set in an unnamed colonial country and describes the life and suffering of a landowning family against a backdrop of civil strife and political change.
[17][18] In 2010, Kitamura's The Longshot was shortlisted for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award.