Katy Hays

Katy Hays is a Californian, writer, and cake aficionado. She lives in the shadow of the Sierra with her husband and their dog, Queso. In addition to writing, Katy works as an adjunct Art History Professor teaching rural students from Truckee to Tecopa. She holds an MA in Art History from Williams College and pursued her PhD in Art History at UC Berkeley. Her academic writing has been published by Ashgate, an imprint of Routledge. Occasionally her humor writing appears in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

Her fiction explores what we’re capable of talking ourselves into, strange-but-real worlds, and unusual friendships. She also runs a substack called June Gloom where she writes (sporadically) about creativity, culture, and California. You can subscribe here.

When not writing (or eating cake) Katy is a skier, cyclist, trail runner, Eastern Sierra enthusiast, and—well, reader.