"Lightning Flowers" was named a New York Times Editor’s Choice/Staff Pick, one of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of Fall 2020, and one of Kirkus Reviews’ 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020. It has been featured on NPR’s "Fresh Air", the "goop" podcast, and in People Magazine, and was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School for Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Terry Tempest Williams called the book “a riveting debut.”
Jennifer Levin interviews author in “Every diagnosis is a kind of death”. Santa Fe New Mexican, The (NM), [s. l.], 12 nov. 2021.
This journal article, Trading Vulnerabilities: Living with Parkinson’s Disease before and after Deep Brain Stimulation (from Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, [s. l.], v. 30, n. 4, p. 623–630, 2021 by GOERING, S.; WEXLER, A.; KLEIN, E..) discusses Katherine Standefer's situation.
Book Review from Library Journal. Oct2020, Vol. 145 Issue 10, p93-93. 1/6p.
Request the review of the book from the New York Times Book Review. 11/22/2020, p14-14. 1p.
Little Brown and Co. Interview, 5 minutes
Tattered Cover Live Interview, 55 minutes