Pronouns: she/her

Kayla Cayasso is a fiction writer and poet whose work explores the impacts of collective trauma on Black and Latinx families across time and the power struggles that take place within these family units. Her work has appeared in Jabberwock Review, The Amistad, River & South Review, Saw Palm, and elsewhere. Kayla taught Introduction to Creative Writing at University of Central Florida, and currently teaches Composition at University of Missouri – Columbia.