<h4>Katie O’Reilly is a Berkeley, California-based writer, and the adventure and lifestyle editor of Sierra magazine. Her essays and journalism have appeared in The Atlantic, Buzzfeed Ideas, Bitch, Bustle, Vela Magazine, Narratively, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The James Franco Review.</h4>

Katie O’Reilly

Ladies Who Jam

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

Pause the Alarm

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Boy Erased

What Belongs to You

Beyond the Queer Victory Narrative: Inside the Gay Lit Invasion of North Carolina

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Katie O’Reilly is a Berkeley, California-based writer, and the adventure and lifestyle editor of Sierra magazine. Her essays and journalism have appeared in The Atlantic, Buzzfeed Ideas, Bitch, Bustle, Vela Magazine, Narratively, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The James Franco Review.