About Kyla Marshell
Kyla Marshell is an african-american poet and creative writer whose poems, essays, articles and interviews have appeared in Blackbird, BuzzFeed, Calyx, Gawker, The Guardian, O, the Oprah Magazine, Vinyl Poetry, and elsewhere. She has earned an Academy of American Poets College Prize, as well as Jacob K. Javits and Cave Canem fellowships. In 2013, Ebony Magazine named her one of 7 Young Black Writers You Should Know. At MacDowell, Kyla made progress on her first book, A Seed Is A Star, a memoir about a chance encounter with a distant relative that leads her to seek out other members of her extended family. At MacDowell in 2020, she edited the second draft of A Seed Is A Star. Marshell is a graduate of Spelman College with a B.A. in English, She is also a Cave Canem Fellow. She received an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College in creative writing. Originally from Boston, she grew up in Silver Spring, MD, Morehead, KY, and Portland, ME, and now lives in New York.Browse all poems and texts published on Kyla Marshell
