Kailyn splits her time between Oakland and Fort Bragg, California. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Literary Hub, Brevity, The Believer, The Cincinnati Review, The Master’s Review, Alta Journal, Pleiades, and New York Magazine, among others. She holds a BA in English literature from Reed College and an MFA in fiction from the University of New Orleans, where she was the editor of Bayou Magazine.
With support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Ucross Foundation, Writing by Writers, and the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, Kailyn writes about women, capitalism, bodies, land, the West, fire, addiction, and true love. She is currently working on her first novel. When not writing, she enjoys walking in the woods, organizing with her local union, diving in the ocean, and reading books with her husband and young daughter. She likes to be outside.
You can read her recent work here and here. Instragram @kkmcwhere. Kailyn is represented by Danielle Svetcov at Levine Greenberg Rostan.
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