Enjoy this audio recording of “The Penelope Metaphor” by Kyla Marshell from Vol 27:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here.
Kyla Marshell is a creative writer whose poems, essays, articles and interviews have appeared in Bookforum, BuzzFeed, Ebony.com, ESPNw, Gawker, The Guardian, Hannah Magazine, Kinfolk Magazine, O, the Oprah Magazine, PEN America, the Poetry Foundation, REVIVE Music, and elsewhere. She has earned an Academy of American Poets College Prize, a Jacob K. Javits fellowship, and is a Cave Canem and MacDowell Colony fellow. In 2013, Ebony.com named her one of “7 Young Black Writers You Should Know.”
Currently, Kyla is at work on a memoir about a chance encounter with a distant relative that leads her to seek out other lost and hidden members of her family.
She is a graduate of Spelman College with a B.A. in English, and Sarah Lawrence College with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Originally from Boston, she grew up in Silver Spring, MD, Morehead, KY, and Portland, ME, and now lives in New York.