Katie Seigenthaler

Katie Seigenthaler is the co-editor of The Kingdom of the Poor: My Journey Home, the best-selling posthumous memoir of homeless activist Charles Strobel; and the co-author with Dr. Alex Jahangir of Hot Spot: A Doctor's Diary from the Pandemic, which chronicles his harrowing tenure as head of Nashville's COVID Task Force. Both were published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2024 and 2022, respectively. Katie is a former reporter, editor and columnist with The Chicago Tribune. She has completed her own memoir, Pretty Talk: Making Peace with Murder, Motherhood and Myself, for which she is currently seeking a publishing home.  Katie can be reached at katieseigenthaler@icloud.com.

Driving Lessons

My mother does not approve of off-color language. But she is going to tell the story, the whole story and nothing but the story, even if she must reference her own hind parts.
“Have I told you about Mr. Warble? George Warble?” she asks my sister and me. We are on a conference line. She has called this meeting, not a good sign.
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