Katy Masuga (born 1975) is an American writer. Biography Katy Masuga is an American writer near Paris, France. Masuga grew up in the San Bernardino National Forest of southern California. She received a B.A. in Philosophy with a Special Option in Religious Studies from Cal State East Bay in tandem with University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder, a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a joint Ph.D. in the Program in Theory and Criticism, both from the University of Washington, Seattle. Masuga teaches for the Fall in Paris program of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. She was on the faculty of Skidmore College in Paris for 4.5 years (2012-2016) and held a postdoctoral teaching and research position at the New Sorbonne University (2015-2016), focusing on the intersections between literature and science. Masuga was the program coordinator for Trinity College in Paris until its dissolution in 2020 due to the pandemic. Masuga studied philosophy and literary theory and criticism with Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, notable figure on the history and philosophy of psychoanalysis. After numerous periods in Paris beginning 2001, Masuga moved permanently to France in 2010, invited by counterculture figure Jim Haynes to live at his atelier in Paris, where she regularly participated in his famous Sunday dinners, sometimes cooking for up to 100 people. He remained like family until his death in January 2021. With Tamara Helenius, she is co-founder of Sappho Road a women's knowledge exchange in English based in France. Her brother is the folk musician Ed Masuga. Writing Katy Masuga is a fiction writer and a scholar in the field of literary modernism. She is a specialist on Henry Miller. Among Masuga's publications on Miller are two books: Henry Miller and How He Got That Way (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), which examines the influence of six major authors on Miller's work, and The Secret Violence of Henry Miller (Camden House, Boydell and Brewer, 2011), which presents an in-depth analysis of Miller's subversive writing. Masuga has written on various topics from Samuel Beckett and language games to profiles of Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) in Paris to the overlooked vegetarianism of the Creature in Frankenstein, as well as a dozen stories that blur the line between fiction and non-fiction. Her stories have appeared in various journals including Zone 3, Your Impossible Voice and Gloom Cupboard, and