KaToya Ellis Fleming is a Black, southern writer from Augusta, Georgia. She is the editor of Lookout Books and an assistant professor of publishing arts at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She teaches courses in publishing, editing, and creative nonfiction and her teaching emphasizes social and cultural literacy and responsibility in an ever-evolving literary landscape. She holds a BA in English from Spelman College and an MFA in Narrative Nonfiction from the University of Georgia.

KaToya has been awarded various fellowships and residencies including a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency, a Sewanee Writers’ Conference scholarship, and the American Copy Editors Society Richard S. Holden Fellowship. She was the recipient of the 2019-2020 Oxford American Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship where she worked, in residence, alongside the Oxford American editorial staff, and began work on her a bibliomemoir, an excerpt from which was published in the Spring 2020 issue of the magazine. Her words have additionally appeared or are forthcoming in the Georgia Review, The Rumpus, Southlands, and elsewhere. Her work focuses on race and culture in the American South.