Kyla Marshell is a creative writer whose poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The Guardian, Gawker, BuzzFeed, Kinfolk, O, the Oprah Magazine and elsewhere. She has earned fellowships from Cave Canem and the MacDowell Colony; Ebony.com named her one of “7 Young Black Writers You Should Know.” She is currently at work on a memoir about a chance encounter with a distant relative which leads her to seek out other lost and hidden members of her family. She is a Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence graduate, and lives in New York. kylamarshell.com