Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
Managing editor of Autostraddle and assistant fiction editor at Foglifter. Author of queer horror novelette Helen House, named one of the Best LGBTQ Books of 2022 by NBC News
Kayla Kumari is a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. Her queer horror novelette Helen House was named one of the Best LGBTQ Books of 2022 by NBC News. She is the managing editor of Autostraddle, an assistant fiction editor at Foglifter, and the former managing editor of TriQuarterly. Her short stories appear in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, Joyland, The Rumpus, Cake Zine, and others. Some of her culture writing can be found in The Cut, The A.V. Club, Vulture, Refinery29, and Vice, and she previously worked as a restaurant reporter for Eater NY. She has held fellowships with Tin House and Lambda Literary.
Workshops with Kayla
The Freaky Flash Fiction Workshop - Learn how to write scary good flash fiction…fast.
The Horror Writing Workshop - Want to be a horror writer? Here’s everything you need to know.