Kase Johnstun

Kase Johnstun lives and writes in Ogden, Utah. He is the author of Beyond the Grip Craniosynostosis (McFarland & Co), which has been featured in Pennsylvania Parenting Magazine, Portland Family Magazine, The Ogden Standard Examiner, and many other places, as well as having mentions in the Chicago Tribune and the Seattle Times. It was awarded the Gold Quill (First Place) in Creative Nonfiction by the League of Utah Writers for 2015.

His work has been published widely by literary journals and trade magazines, including, but not limited to, Southwest the magazine, Yahoo Parenting, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Coldnoon: Travel Writing and Traveling Poetics, Like The Wind Magazine, and The Chronicle Review.

He is the co-editor/author of Utah Reflections: Stories from the Wasatch Front (The History Press), which was named the Salt Lake Tribune’s book of the month for August 2014 and the League of Utah Writers Recommended Read in Nonfiction 2015 (Third Place).

His essay collection Tortillas for Honkies was named a finalist for the 2013 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Awards (most of the essays in the collection have found homes in places like The Watershed Review, Label Me Latino/a, Prime Number Literary Magazine, Animal Literary Magazine, and Rougaroo Literary Magazine).

He was literary chair for the Ogden City Arts Advisory Committee (2014-2018), he was named to Ogden’s 40 under 40 three weeks before he turned 40 in 2015 and hosts a literary podcast called LITerally where he interviews authors about all things publishing and writing. He is a board member of the Label Me Latina/o Literary Magazine (Queens University of Charlotte).

In January 2016, he was the artist in residence at JIWAR International Artist Residency in Barcelona, Spain.

He is the 2020 Literary Curator for literary stage of the Utah Arts Festival and has supported and created literary events in Ogden since moving back to his home town in 2013.

He teaches creative writing for the following institutions: The Creative Nonfiction Foundation, The Graduate School in Creative Writing for Southern New Hampshire University, Barton Community College, and Weber State University.

He has a MA in Creative Writing and Literature from Kansas State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University.

Works

Bibliography

  • Beyond the Grip of Craniosynostosis, McFarland & Company. January 2015.
  • Sherri Hoffman and Mary Johnstun, Utah Reflections: Stories from the Wasatch Front. The History Press. June 2014.

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Additional Info

  • Region: Wasatch Front
  • Genre: Nonfiction
  • Tags: Latinx