Kyla Marshell’s essays, poems, interviews and reviews have appeared in The Guardian, Gawker, BuzzFeed, The Believer, Kinfolk, O, the Oprah Magazine, Shondaland, The Ringer, and elsewhere. She has earned Jacob K. Javits, Cave Canem and MacDowell fellowships; Ebony.com named her one of "7 Young Black Writers You Should Know."

Currently, Kyla is at work on a memoir about a chance encounter with a distant relative that leads her to seek out the other lost and hidden members of her family.

She is a graduate of Spelman College with a B.A. in English, and Sarah Lawrence College with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Originally from Boston, she grew up in Silver Spring, MD, Morehead, KY, and Portland, ME, and now lives in New York.