Kyla Marshell’s work has appeared in Blackbird, ESPNw, Gawker, The Guardian, O, the Oprah Magazine, and on the Poetry Foundation website. Her work has earned her Cave Canem and Jacob K. Javits fellowships, two residencies to the Vermont Studio Center, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. A Spelman College graduate originally from Boston, she grew up in Silver Spring, MD, Morehead, KY, and Portland, ME, and now lives in New York. Her website: kylamarshell.com