Program Manager, Utah Center for the Book
Kase Johnstun lives and writes in Ogden, Utah. He was most recently named the 2021 Ogden Mayor’s Award Recipient for the Literary Arts. 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).
He has a BA in English Literature and Technical and Professional Writing from Weber State University, an MA in Creative Writing and Literature from Kansas State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University. Before joining UH, Johnstun spent ten years in publishing, writing and editing for newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, and professional baseball. For the last 15 years, Johnstun has taught writing nationally and internationally for universities, non-profit organizations, undergraduates and graduates, and high school students.