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About K

K.W. Onley is a speculative fiction writer living in Maryland. She spends her time gathering community, contemplating the possible, discerning truth, and imagining the future—as much as she can in fiction. In her fiction, she writes stories featuring children of color who can traverse many worlds with the savvy to code-switch, challenge, and triumph as they go. She writes under multiple pen names, including K. Onley for middle-grade and K. W. Onley for adult fiction. K. is a proud graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, GrubStreet's Short Story Incubator, Viable Paradise, and Clarion West. Her work can be found in the Many Worlds anthology, FIYAH magazine, and Strange Horizons. When she is not leading or writing, Kyra knits, quilts, and embroiders.

Thematic Interests for her Consulting Work:

K.W. Onley is excited to work with writers who are playing with speculative elements in literary fiction (bring her your fabulist work!) and in purely speculative work (she loves to read all the subgenres of speculative fiction!). She delights in working with writers who are also juggling parenthood, writers of color who want a reader with shared experiences, anyone else who needs a cheerleader for their work. She works best on short fiction but is open to reading novels/novel excerpts.