Kayla Miller is a writer with a day job. They’re an award-winning queer 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. They hail from the salty South; before Vegas, they were born and raised in small town Georgia.
Kayla has been publishing fiction and creative nonfiction since 2010. They headlined the 2017 Agnes Scott Writers Festival alongside Claudia Rankine and Patrick Phillips, and their fiction chapbook See & Be Seen & Be Scene, was the 2014 fiction winner of Five [Quarterly]‘s e-chapbook competition. Kayla 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 publication credits and links.
Currently, Kayla’s focused on two full-length works: a Southern Gothic novel and a short story collection. Four excerpts of the novel-in-progress have been published. For CV or resume, email kaylaiswriting@gmail.com.
kaylamillerwrites.com 
Hey, Kayla! Just discovered your website via Instagram. Can’t wait to explore it and read all your writing! #kaylasbiggestfan haha. Missing you, your awesome readings, and your amazing singing voice all the way from Budapest. Hope to see you when we get back!
Best,
Timea (& Jack)
Since hearing her read during her first year as an MFA student at UNLV, Kayla Miller’s talent was immediately obvious. The tenderness of her work manages to carry a subtle, dark undercurrent without taking away from the sincere care expressed by her characters and voice. Her stories incorporate themes of family bonds, otherness, the struggle over one’s identity, and beauty blend wonderfully… an alchemy where shared experienced, love, and the surreal are at once deeply accessible and familiar, yet strange and unsettling. Between the easy, authentic qualities of southern dialect that her dialogue draws from and the magical nature of the content itself, reading her work feels as if I’ve come home. As I read further, however, I realize this place I found initially comforting is entwined with an anxiousness that something intrinsic, unfamiliar, and nameless is running right below the surface. Without a doubt, Kayla is someone to watch closely, and I look forward to seeing what she does over the next several years.
Hey Kayla!! Your page hasn’t been updated in a bit. Any new books or info?