Katy Yocom is Associate Director of Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. Her novel Three Ways to Disappear (Ashland Creek Press) won the Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Book Award, the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, and others. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Literary Hub, Salon, Newsweek, Terrain.org, Necessary Fiction, American Way (the American Airlines in-flight magazine), The Louisville Review, and elsewhere. She received the Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. 

Website: https://katyyocom.com

Twitter Username: @KatyYocom1

Publications

• Three Ways to Disappear , Ashland Creek Press (July 16, 2019)
• Creativity & Compassion: Spalding Writers Celebrate Twenty Years (co-editor) , Good River Books (2021)

Awards

• Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Book Award(2021)
• Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature(2016)
• Al Smith Fellowship (Kentucky Arts Council)(2019)

Employment

• Associate Administrative Director at Spalding MFA in Writing Program (2013 - 2017)
• Associate Director of Communications and Alumni Relations at Spalding's Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing (2017 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Spalding University (October 2003)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction