Kasie Whitener

Award-winning GenX fiction writer Dr. Kasie Whitener hosts a Columbia-based radio show called “Write On SC,” and a weekly Twitter chat called #wschat. Her debut novel, After December, was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards in 2020 and her second novel Before Pittsburgh, won Honorable Mention the 2021 New York Book Festival. Dr. Whitener is the current President of South Carolina Writers Association and won the 2021 Governor’s Award for Fresh Voices in the Humanities. She has delivered workshops for the South Carolina Writers Association, Pat Conroy Literary Center, Winter Wheat Festival, Fairfax County Public Library, and the South Carolina Book Festival.