KAYLIE SAIDIN was born and raised in the San Francisco area and is currently based in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Her work can be found in Oxford American, Prairie Schooner, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from UNC Wilmington, where she served as Fiction Coeditor of Ecotone Magazine. She graduated from Loyola University New Orleans in 2019 with a B.A. in English literature. Her last name is pronounced like Poseidon, minus the Po.
Kaylie has completed a novel about teenage girls in a punk rock band, for which she is currently seeking representation.