Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin (they/them) is a queer and trans, biracial, Vietnamese unamerican diaspora writer based in Boston, MA. Their work revolves around the intersection of dreaming/fantasizing/futurizing and grieving, and focuses on topics of care, 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, diaCRITICS, Autostraddle, and other publications. They are a Press Editor for Half Mystic Press and a Co-Coordinator for Sundress Publications’ Poets in Pajamas reading series, and have taught writing workshops independently as well as for Split This Rock, Mendocino Art Center, Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), and more. Their work has been supported by Tin House, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, The Kenyon Review, and more.