Kayla Cayasso

Kayla Cayasso is an Afro-Nicaraguan writer, poet, and editor from north Florida. Kayla graduated from Florida A&M University with a B.S. in African American Studies. She is a recipient of the Hollins Creative Writing Book Award (2012), the FAMU Graduate Feeder Fellowship, and placed first in fiction in the FAMU Annual Writing Contest (2021). Her work has been featured in CaKe: A Literary Journal, Olit Magazine, and elsewhere. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Central Florida, and is the Fiction Editor of The Dodge, a journal that publishes ecofiction and writing about animals.