Kayla Rae Whitaker is originally from Eastern Kentucky and has an MFA in fiction from New York University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in
Smokelong Quarterly, Bodega, Burnt Bridge, and
Still. She recently appeared alongside such luminaries as Lynyrd Skynyrd in the History Channel’s southern culture documentary
You Don’t Know Dixie. She is currently at work on a novel about raging lady cartoonists. You can also find her on the
Twitter.