Born in Georgia and now making her home in Virginia, Kayla Lightner is a storyteller whose prose has found its way into Split Lip Magazine, Indiana Review, Pithead Chapel, phoebe, and elsewhere. Her narratives have earned her the Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize and the Ann E. Imbrie Prize, along with nods from the Pushcart Prize, Wigleaf’s Top 50, and Best Small Fictions. Recognized as a finalist for Best of the Net and supported by VCCA, she is honing her craft as an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Maryland. Find her online at kaylalightner.com
