Katherine Conner is a Lebanese-American writer from Mississippi. Her collection of short stories, The Hanged Man, was selected as a finalist for the 2024 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, a runner-up for the 2023 Iron Horse Literary Review First Book Prize, and a finalist for the 2022 Hudson Prize from Black Lawrence Press. Her novel, Bury Me First, is a 2024 Claymore Award Finalist. `

Her short stories have appeared in several literary magazines, including 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.

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.

Katherine is represented by Jessica Faust at Bookends Literary Agency.