Our Artists

Artist Statement

Katey Schultz is a North Carolina author, teacher, and writing mentor. She is the author of Flashes of War, which the Daily Beast called “ambitious and fearless,” and Still Come Home—both published by Loyola University Maryland. Honors for her work include North Carolina’s Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, the Linda Flowers Literary Award, Doris Betts Fiction Prize, a Foreword INDIES award, gold and silver medals from the Military Writers Society of America, the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year award, five Pushcart nominations, a nomination to Best American Short Stories, National Indies Excellence recognition, and writing fellowships in eight states. She has taught all over the country—at Interlochen College of Creative Arts, Fishtrap, 49 Alaska Writing Center, StoryStudio Chicago, among many others. 

Katey is the director of Monthly Mentorship, a writing mentorship for writers seeking a fresh approach to the writing life and a renewed sense of creative community. She is also the founder of WRITEABILITY, a nonprofit whose mission is to embody a revelatory approach to the craft of writing and the writing life, uplift and defend the imagination, right the wrongs of discriminatory literary gatekeeping, and model inclusivity and sustainability for a future generation of authors. 

Katey is currently working on a novel set in rural Appalachia, exploring the lives of two teenagers as they grow up and out of the molds their strip mining town has cast for them, ultimately revealing how to forgive the unforgivable. An excerpt can be read here.