“Sensual and sensory, lush with longing, Three Ways to Disappear is an assured and lovely debut novel. You'll find yourself luxuriating in its language and carried away by its complex and endearing characters. There isn't one wasted word, and I loved them all” -- Silas House, author of Southernmost

About the Author:

Katy Yocom was born and raised in Atchison, Kansas. She graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in journalism and holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University. Her novel Three Ways to Disappear, scheduled to be released July 2019 from Ashland Creek Press, won the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature and was a finalist for the Dzanc Books Disquiet Open Borders Book Prize and the UNO Press Publishing Lab Prize.

In 2019, she received the Al Smith Fellowship for artistic excellence from the Kentucky Arts Council, the state’s highest honor for individual artists. In researching the novel, Yocom traveled to India to visit tiger reserves, funded by a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. She has also received grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and served as writer-in-residence at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Crosshatch Hill House, and PLAYA. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Salon, The Louisville Review, decomP magazinE, Louisville Magazine, and elsewhere. Her short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

She lives with her husband and their furry family—including a rabbit, a kitten and a 60-pound Goldendoodle—in Louisville and serves as associate director of Spalding’s School of Creative and Professional Writing, where it's her great good fortune to work with writers every day. She also serves on the board of advisors of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference and co-directs the Spalding at 21c reading series in Louisville.