Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin (they/them) is a queer and trans, biracial, Vietnamese unamerican diaspora writer whose work revolves around the intersection of dreaming 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, fifth wheel press, DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE, and other publications. They are a 2026 BIPOC Fellow for Trans Poetics Archive, 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 and Table Conversation. Their work has been supported by Tin House, the Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), Seventh Wave, Abode Press, and more.