Katy Yocom

Katy Yocom was born and raised in Atchison, Kansas. A lifelong love of big cats led her to India, where she encountered tigers in the wild, visited rural villages, and saw sunrise at the Taj Mahal. These experiences ended up in the pages of her debut novel, Three Ways to Disappear (Ashland Creek Press).

A Barnes & Noble Top Indie Favorite, Three Ways to Disappear won the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, Phillip H. McMath Book Award, First Horizon Award, Micro Press Award, and others.

Katy's writing has appeared in Newsweek, American Way in-flight magazine, LitHub, Salon, Terrain.org, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University. With Kathleen Driskell, she is co-editor of the anthology Creativity & Compassion: Spalding Writers Celebrate Twenty Years. She lives with her two- and four-legged family in Louisville, Kentucky, where she serves as associate director of the low-residency programs of Spalding’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing.

Find her at http://katyyocom.com, on Facebook @KatyYocomAuthor, and on Twitter and Instagram @KatyYocom1 .