Prior to coming to Johns Hopkins, Katharine Noel was the Writer in Residence at Claremont McKenna College (2009 to 2013).  From 2002-2009, she was a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, where she held Wallace Stegner and Truman Capote fellowships in 2000–2002. Before teaching at Stanford, she worked for two years at Gould Farm, a program in the Berkshire Mountains for adults with mental illnesses, and for four years at an Oakland, California shelter for women and children experiencing homelessness.  At Hopkins, in addition to teaching fiction writing, she directs The Teaching Fellows Project.