Katherine Conner’s short stories have appeared in West Branch, Pembroke Magazine, Willow Springs, Shenandoah, Copper Nickel, Blackbird, Fugue, Surreal South, The Chattahoochee Review, The Portland Review, Raleigh Review, and elsewhere. Additionally, her story, “Percipient,” won the Willow Springs Fiction Prize. Her collection of short stories was named a finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, and the Iron Horse Literary Review First Book Prize.

A graduate of the doctoral creative writing program at Florida State University, she also holds a Master’s from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. Currently, she is an associate professor of creative writing at Nicholls State University and lives in New Orleans.