KATRINA GOLDSAITO's award-winning books and performances wade through the depth of human experience to make space for presence and connection.
Her book THE SOUND OF SILENCE was called “An illustrated serenade to the art of listening to your inner voice amid the noise of modern life.” by Maria Popova and was named a Book of the Year by NPR, People Magazine, Brain Pickings, The Boston Globe, the Huffington Post, and won the Northern California Book Award. It has been translated into French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Vietnamese, and Mongolian.
Her new book, WHEN CHERRY BLOSSOMS FALL (2026), is a contemplation on loss and has received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and is translated into Italian.
ReachYou, her augmented reality collaboration with Jonah Goldsaito connects participants with their grief: mundane or profound. Its world premiere was at the Tribeca Festival, and continued on to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Kaohsiung Film Festival in Taiwan.
Her current work in development is DON'T CRY EMILY, an interactive grief-ritual performance.
With her intergenerational family, Katrina lived nomadically for a few years, and has written travel journalism for many publications including National Geographic, NPR, and the Christian Science Monitor.
