Katie Tallo is a Canadian screenwriter, director, and author.
Tallo grew up in Ottawa in the Carleton Heights neighbourhood of Nepean.[1] She is a graduate of Carleton University and Algonquin College.[2]
Inspired by her time with Women in the Director's Chair (WIDC) in 1997, Tallo developped a scene from her WIDC workshop into her 1998 short film, See Through.[3] Tallo directed the TV-documentary Juiced for CityTV in 1999. Her first feature film, Posers, premiered in 2002. She both wrote and directed the movie.[4] For ten years, Tallo served on the Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA) Board of Directors.[3]
In 2020, Tallo's debt novel, Dark August, was published by HarperCollins.[1] Dark August was named a New York Times Editor's Pick.[5] Its sequel, Poison Lilies, was published in 2022.[6]
Tallo lives in Ottawa with her husband and daughter.[7] She also had a dog named Levi, whom she depicted in Dark August.[8]