Kayla Miller is a writer, instructor, & dog lover. She’s an award-winning queer woman writer who holds an MFA in English/Creative Writing (fiction) from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a BA in English Literature-Creative Writing from Agnes Scott College. She hails from the salty South; before Vegas, she was born and raised in small town Georgia.

She has been publishing fiction and creative nonfiction since 2010. She headlined the 2017 Agnes Scott Writers Festival alongside Claudia Rankine and Patrick Phillips, and her fiction chapbook See & Be Seen & Be Scene, was the 2014 fiction winner of Five [Quarterly]‘s e-chapbook competition. She is the recipient of numerous scholastic and creative awards, including the Talbot International Award and the Janef Newman Preston Prize for Fiction. The Creative Work page houses a complete list of her publication credits and links.

Currently, she’s shopping two full-length works: a Southern Gothic novel and a short story collection. Four excerpts of her novel have been published. For CV, email kaylaiswriting@gmail.com.