Katie Brewer Ball (KBB) is a creative writer and scholar living on Nonotuck land in Western Massachusetts. They are the author of The Only Way Out: The Racial & Sexual Performance of Escape (Duke University Press, 2024), which examines contemporary literary and performance works that deal with narratives of escape. Brewer Ball is currently working on two book projects, Unsettling Art Criticism: Alaska Native Art After 1960, for which they are a 2024 recipient of the The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant, and a book on the history of Arctic science on the North Slope of Alaska. Their writing has been published in The Mass Review, Room Magazine, ASAP/Journal, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, TDR: The Drama Review, Artforum, Little Joe, Bomb Magazine, Dirty Looks, and by ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. Brewer Ball’s short story, 1997, was nominated for a 2025 Pushcart Prize.

KBB is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University.

kbrewerball [at] wesleyan [dot] edu