Kathy Bratkowski is a writer and producer/director in St. Louis, Missouri.

 

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, Sama International Film Festival in Stockholm, the St. Louis International Film Festival, and the Archaeology Channel film festival) and on major streaming platforms. Her writing has been published in literary journals. 

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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 writing and multimedia production at Lindenwood University and St. Louis Community College. 

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She was a contributing editor at River Styx magazine where she provided story critiques for fiction writers. She was a finalist in the Masters' Workshop in the Tucson Festival of Books and has completed residences at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Writers Colony 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 affects on the lives of the people who called it home.

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