Genres: Novel | Short Fiction | Memoir | Essay | General Creative Nonfiction | Essay | Sci-Fi/Speculative Fiction
Bio: Kayla Degala-Paraíso (she/they) is an NYC-based, Filipinx-American experimental writer with a B.A. in Creative Writing. Although a professional cross-genre dabbler, she has a special affection for fabulism, hybrid forms (especially prose poetry), and strange creative nonfiction (especially memoir). She prioritizes voice and feeling in her work. In her writing, she also often attempts to untangle messy entanglements, challenge conventions of craft, sucker-punch you in the gut. She is currently working on a collection of haunted stories. Kayla publishes under "K. Degala-Paraíso". You can read her work in PANK, Okay Donkey, ANMLY, and elsewhere. Her work has received the Bea Matas Hollfelder Award, a Pushcart Prize nomination, a Best Small Fictions nomination, and three Best of the Net nominations.