Kayla Cayasso

Kayla Cayasso is an Afro-Latina writer and poet from north Florida and PhD student in English and creative writing at the University of Missouri. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in midnight & indigo, River & South Review, Saw Palm, and Jabberwock Review. Cayasso is currently working on a novel-in-stories about Black families and the way they navigate silence, tragedy, and generational trauma across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.