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, GASHER Journal, For Page & Screen Magazine, Beyond Queer Words, and more. They are a Member of the Reader Board at Sundress Publications and a Fiction Reader for Okay Donkey, and have been awarded residencies and/or fellowships from the Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), Collections of Transience, Abode Press, and more.