Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin (they/them) is a queer and trans, biracial, Vietnamese unamerican diaspora writer based in Boston, MA. Their work revolves around themes of dreaming, fantasizing, and futurizing, and focuses on topics of diaspora, transness, ecology, empire, and intergenerational histories. The Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Xenolithic Edges Literary, Kyla-Yến’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions, and appears or is forthcoming in The Offing, ANMLY, fifth wheel press, DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE, and other publications. They are a 2026 BIPOC Fellow for Trans Poetics Archive, and have taught writing workshops independently as well as for Split This Rock and Table Conversation. They have also been awarded workshops, residencies, and/or fellowships from Tin House, Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), Seventh Wave, Abode Press, and more.