Kaylyn Groves is a novelist obsessed with misfittedness/belonging and betrayal/loyalty. This obsession was born of a peripatetic childhood in Provincetown then Dallas then San Francisco, with parents who separated, reunited, and divorced after infidelity. As an adult, Kaylyn has continued searching for home and her people, first in Maine for college, back in San Francisco, then in DC, Charlottesville, Eugene, Baltimore, DC again, Austin, Nashville, and (now) Chattanooga. She found one home in librarianship—earning her MLS from Catholic University and working as an academic librarian for three years before going to work as a writer and editor for the Association of Research Libraries in 1999.

Kaylyn found another home in writing fiction, her first true love. She has taken novel workshops with Laura Lippman, Steve Almond, and Ivy Pochoda at Writers in Paradise, Lighthouse Lit Fest, and the Fine Arts Work Center, among others. Kaylyn’s first novel manuscript, FLAPPERS AND FUGITIVES, is under consideration for publication by a university press following a revise-and-resubmit request. Her second novel manuscript, OUR LADY OF THE MILK, was a Killer Nashville Judges’ Top Pick for the 2025 Claymore Awards in the Southern Gothic category.