Katy Masuga  Katy Masuga (born 1975) is an American writer. 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. With Tamara Helenius, she is co-founder of Sappho Road a women's knowledge exchange in Paris, France. Masuga studied philosophy and literary theory and criticism with Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, prominent author and thinker on the history and philosophy of psychoanalysis and the director of Masuga's joint Ph.D. Her brother is the folk musician Ed Masuga. 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 multiple times as a "Letter from Paris" in The Broadkill Review. In 2017 Masuga's research group at New Sorbonne University published their findings on a project entitled "Science and Storytelling" in "New Developments in ESP Teaching and Learning Research". Her debut novel, "The Origin of Vermilion", was published in 2016 by Spuyten Duyvil Press, New York.