KATY KOONTZ

Katy has worked with numerous New Thought and self-help authors—including several who’ve made The New York Times bestseller list—as a freelance editor and researcher, developmental editor/book doctor, and ghostwriter.

Some of her most notable clients include Christiane Northrup, M.D.; Anita Moorjani; Joe Dispenza, D.C..; Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D.; Gerald Jampolsky, M.D.; and Diane Cirincione-Jampolsky, Ph.D.

Katy works directly with authors as well as with their publishers as a book is written, edited, and produced—often from the initial concept and outline all the way through to reading final page proofs just before publication.

Katy is the editor-in-chief of Unity Magazine—a bimonthly New Thought magazine published by Unity. She has interviewed a series of New Thought luminaries for her regular “Listening in With…” cover stories, which are presented in Q&A format. Katy has had compelling conversations with Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, India.Arie, Thomas Moore, Caroline Myss, Joe Dispenza, Neale Donald Walsch, Christiane Northrup, don Miguel Ruiz, Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith, and many others. In addition to the “Listening in With…” Q&A, Katy writes an editor’s note (“The Inside Scoop”) and occasional articles in the magazine.

Unity, a nondenominational spiritual organization within the New Thought movement, was founded in 1889 by Charles Fillmore and Myrtle Page Fillmore. The magazine, which began publication in 1891, is based at the Unity headquarters just outside of Kansas City, Missouri.

Katy’s travel stories have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Travel & Leisure, Outside, USA Weekend, Family Fun, Shape, and many other national publications. She’s written online articles for AOL Travel, MapQuest, Expedia’s Family Vacation Critic, USA Today’s online city guides, and Forbes Travel Guide.

She is the author of Family Fun in the Smokies (Great Smoky Mountains Association, 2012) and The Smoky Mountain Travel Guide app (Sutro Media, 2012). Katy has also contributed to a variety of travel books published by Globe Pequot Press, Reader’s Digest Books, Travelers’ Tales, and Fodor’s.

Katy has won four nationally competitive Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism awards, and her Smokies book was a finalist in the 2013 Association of Partners for Public Lands Media competition. A travel story she wrote for Unity Magazine was a finalist in the 2015 Folio: Magazine Eddie awards.