Kiley McLaughlin is a Kundiman Fellow and Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate. Her writing has appeared in FENCE, Black Warrior Review, Annulet Poetics Journal, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. Her debut fiction chapbook, Maw Appears in the Following Forms (2024), was the winner of the Gold Line Chapbook Contest.

She currently teaches Creative Writing and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz, where she is completing a PhD in creative/critical literature.