Kase Johnstun lives and writes in Ogden, Utah. He is the author of the novel CAST AWAY from Torrey House Press and the author of Let the Wild Grasses Grow, which has been named a Women’s National Book Association Great Group Read 2022, a High Plains Book Award Fiction Finalist 2022, a Recommended Read in Fiction for The League of Utah Writers 2022, and a Reading the West Longlist nominee. His book Beyond the Grip Craniosynostosis (McFarland & Co) was awarded the Gold Quill in Creative Nonfiction by the League of Utah Writers for 2015. His work has also been published widely by literary journals and trade magazines.