Kathy Bratkowski is a writer and director in St. Louis, Missouri. Her fiction has been published in Drunk Monkeys, Old Northeast Review and elsewhere. She has produced and directed four feature length documentary films and scores of short video features, many of which have been recognized by regional Emmy® awards, MCA Golden Reels and Telly awards. Her documentaries have screened in film festivals (the New York Television Festival, the St. Louis International Film Festival, and the Archaeology Channel film festival) and are streaming on Amazon Prime. 

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She has an M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and an M.A. in Media Communications from Webster University, where she taught courses in writing, media ethics and production. She has taught broadcast and multimedia production at Lindenwood University and St. Louis Community College. 

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She is a contributing editor at River Styx magazine where she has conducted story critiques for fiction writers. She was a finalist in the Masters' Workshop in the Tucson Festival of Books and has attended residences at Dairy Hollow, Vermont College of Fine Arts, and Craigarden Arts Center.

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Her latest documentary project tells the stories of Afghan immigrants who have settled in St. Louis and the efforts of the region to attract them. 

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She hosts interviews with authors as part of a series sponsored by the St. Louis County Library and St. Louis-area independent bookstores. She is at work on a multiple point-of-view novel Times Beach, about an environmental catastrophe that displaces an entire small town, with long-lasting effects on the lives of the people who called it home.

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