Kaylie Saidin

is a writer. Her work can be found in Oxford American, New Orleans Review, Nashville Review, and elsewhere. Her unpublished manuscript, GOOSE UPDATE, was a finalist in the 2025 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. 

Originally from the San Francisco area, she lives in Wilmington, North Carolina and serves as Membership Director for the North Carolina Writers’ Network.

She received her MFA in Creative Writing from UNC Wilmington, where she served as Fiction Coeditor of Ecotone Magazine. She graduated from Loyola University New Orleans in 2019 with a B.A. in English Literature. 

Her last name is pronounced like Poseidon, minus the Po.