Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin (they/them) is a queer and trans, biracial, Vietnamese American diaspora writer whose work revolves around themes of dreaming, fantasizing, and futurizing, and focuses on topics of diaspora, transness, ecology, empire, and intergenerational histories. Originally from the Bay Area, CA, they now live in Cambridge, MA. Kyla-Yến's work has appeared in The Offing, Beyond Queer Words, Vănguard, and more. They are the Managing Editor at Rawhead, a Member of the Reader Board at Sundress Publications, and a Fiction Reader for Okay Donkey. They have been awarded residencies, workshops, and/or fellowships from Tin House, the Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), Seventh Wave, Abode Press, and more.