Do the people who don't claim you have any right to decide who you are? Check out this behind the scenes with Kate Johnstun as he shares his family story and identity.

Kase Johnston is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He lives in Ogden, Utah, with his small family, and is on the board of Label Me Latina/o literary journal — just a writer who has been grappling with identity his whole life.

Author: 'Cast Away' (forthcoming from Torrey House Press, 2024). You can buy the new book now!⁠⁠ https://www.torreyhouse.org/let-the-wild-grasses-grow ⁠

'Let the Wild Grasses Grow' (Torrey House Press, 2021), Finalist High Plains Book Award, Fiction, 2022, Women’s National Book Association Great Group Read 2022

And 'Beyond the Grip of Craniosynostosis (McFarland & Co, 2015), Winner of the 2015 Gold Quill, League of Utah Writers

Co author/editor: Utah Reflections: Stories from the Wasatch Front (History Press, 2014) Host, The LITerally Podcast - ⁠http://www.thebanyancollective.com/literally/⁠