Kaylie Saidin

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 Her unpublished manuscript, GOOSE UPDATE, was a finalist for the 2025 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. 

She lives in Wilmington, North Carolina and serves as Membership Director for the North Carolina Writers’ Network. She has received support from the North Carolina Arts Council.

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. 

She is currently working on a speculative intergenerational family novel about a haunted house by the sea.