Kylie Ayn Yockey (she/her) earned her MA in Writing: Fiction from Spalding University’s Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing, and graduated with a BA in Creative Writing & Literature: Fiction & Poetry from Santa Fe University of Art & Design.

With a background in the arts, digital communications, organizational administration, popular culture, and higher education, Kylie is an interdisciplinary creative in the publishing and marketing realms. She works as a multi-industry social media & digital marketing professional, an independent literary editor and consultant, the poetry editor for Blood Tree Literature, a fiction editor for Chaotic Merge Magazine, and the social media coordinator for EastOver Press + Cutleaf Journal.

In the past, Kylie's edited for Glyph Magazine, The Louisville Review, Ink & Voices, and Good River Review. She’s been a Best of the Net nominee for short fiction and a Mann-Driskell Scholarship recipient for female writers of long-form fiction.

Kylie is a queer Southerner with roots all over the United States, and is a new Canadian immigrant. She grew up (and continues to grow) surrounded by a diverse network of talented friends, powerful community, and supportive loved ones.