Katherine Conner’s fiction has appeared in West Branch, Pembroke Magazine, Willow Springs, Shenandoah, Copper Nickel, Blackbird, Fugue, The Chattahoochee Review, The Portland Review, Raleigh Review, and elsewhere. She was named a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, and the Iron Horse Literary Review First Book Prize. She is a professor of creative writing and lives in New Orleans.