Kaylie Saidin
“For fans of Miranda July and Bryan Washington, these darkly funny and wide-ranging stories are a study in the failures and confusions of young adulthood. The queer southern men and dramatic southern women who populate this world reveal the intricate betrayals and absurdities that can take place in friendships, marriages, and on the murky borders between socioeconomic classes.”
is the author of Goose Update (coming 2027), winner of the 2026 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, selected by final judge Catherine Lacey. The collection was also a finalist for the 2025 Prairie Schooner Book Prize.
Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Oxford American, Bellevue Literary Review, and New Orleans Review, among other publications.
She received an MFA in Creative Writing from UNC Wilmington, where she served as Fiction Coeditor of Ecotone Magazine, and a BA from Loyola University New Orleans. She currently lives in North Carolina by the sea.
Her last name is pronounced like Poseidon, minus the Po.