Katherine Conner is a Lebanese-American writer from Mississippi. Her collection of short stories, The Hanged Man, was published in 2026 with Black Lawrence Press.

Her collection has been named a finalist in a number of contests, including the St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press, the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize from Hub City Press, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction, and the Iron Horse Literary Review First Book Prize.

Her novel, Bury Me First, was a 2024 Claymore Award Finalist for the first fifty pages of an unpublished novel. 

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 a professor of English and creative writing at Nicholls State University and lives in New Orleans.