Kaylyn is a novelist obsessed with misfittedness/belonging and betrayal/loyalty. These obsessions were born of a nomadic girlhood in Provincetown then Dallas then San Francisco, with hippie parents who separated then reunited then divorced. As an adult, Kaylyn has kept moving, first to Maine for college, back to San Francisco, then to DC, Charlottesville, Eugene, Baltimore, DC again, Austin, Nashville, and Chattanooga. A former librarian, Kaylyn has worked as a writer and editor since 1999 for the Association of Research Libraries. She drafted and revised her first novel manuscript while taking workshops with Steve Almond, Cari Luna, Taylor Larsen, and Ivy Pochoda at Lighthouse Lit Fest, Hugo House, Catapult, and the Fine Arts Work Center. She is currently at work on her second novel.