Katy Read
Reporter
Carver and western Hennepin CountiesPreviously, Read was a reporter at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, La., and the Duluth News-Tribune and spent 15 years as a freelance writer for national and regional magazines. She has also written for Salon, Real Simple, Working Mother, Minnesota Monthly, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Toronto Globe and Mail and other publications. Her essays have been published in several anthologies including "Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir." She has won a Minnesota State Arts Board grant and multiple literary awards, as well as four fellowships for journalists on aging. She is a Minnetonka native and a University of Minnesota graduate. Her most exciting hobbies include working (very slowly) on a memoir, cruising the internet and walking her dog.
Latest from Katy Read
2024 Lake Minnetonka home in Mound, with mid-century modern style, listed for about $3.15M
Angela and Noah Hoffman wanted the big windows and natural materials of the house that previously occupied their peninsula lot.
June 27, 2025
Luxe renovated Edina house with billiard room and saltwater pool listed at $2.95M
Kyle and Andrea Vorachek are live-in flippers who remodeled the Twin Cities metro home in hopes of making a profit.
June 20, 2025
Award-winning Minneapolis restaurant Young Joni will close this fall
A dispute over a lease agreement was cited as the reason Ann Kim will close her Northeast restaurant.
June 16, 2025
![Diners at a long table in the center of the dining room of Young Joni. ] JEFF WHEELER • jeff.wheeler@startribune.com Young Joni is the Star Tribune's Restaurant of the Year for 2017. The Northeast Minneapolis restaurant was photographed Thursday evening, December 7, 2017.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/N5RUZVQLO3UIUCVLY77X2IR76Q.jpg?&w=252&ar=3:2&fit=crop)
Former NHL player’s Minneapolis house with Bde Maka Ska views listed at $5.25M
Former NHL player John Johannson built his 12,000-square-foot home near the Minikahda Club golf course.
June 13, 2025
Top Workplaces leaders say employee-centric culture helps business in tough years
Honorees work on their companies’ culture because they say it improves their performance.
June 12, 2025
Another of Bloomington’s Normandale Lake Office Park towers under foreclosure
Lenders for several parts of the Twin Cities’ largest office complex have alleged millions in missed payments. New York-based Opal Holdings bought the five towers in 2022 for $366 million.
June 11, 2025
Eco-friendly house on 30 acres near Marine on St. Croix listed at $1.6M
Screenwriter Shawn Otto and former state auditor Rebecca Otto built the home in the 1990s and have incorporated solar and wind power.
June 6, 2025
Black Sheep pizza sued for $200K back rent at closed south Minneapolis shop
The coal-fired pizza restaurant at one point had four locations in the Twin Cities, but now just the original North Loop shop in downtown Minneapolis remains.
June 5, 2025
Top Workplaces leaders say employee-centric culture helps business in tough years
Honorees work on their companies’ culture because they say it improves their performance.
June 12, 2025
Another of Bloomington’s Normandale Lake Office Park towers under foreclosure
Lenders for several parts of the Twin Cities’ largest office complex have alleged millions in missed payments. New York-based Opal Holdings bought the five towers in 2022 for $366 million.
June 11, 2025
Eco-friendly house on 30 acres near Marine on St. Croix listed at $1.6M
Screenwriter Shawn Otto and former state auditor Rebecca Otto built the home in the 1990s and have incorporated solar and wind power.
June 6, 2025
Black Sheep pizza sued for $200K back rent at closed south Minneapolis shop
The coal-fired pizza restaurant at one point had four locations in the Twin Cities, but now just the original North Loop shop in downtown Minneapolis remains.
June 5, 2025