About
Kaitlyn Burd is a fiction writer from Louisville, Kentucky.
She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University, where she studied with Karen Russell, Jennifer DuBois, Tom Grimes, Doug Dorst, and Tim O’Brien. She was a Graduate Merit Fellow and a recipient of the David Stevens Memorial Scholarship.
In 2022, she acted as the executive chair of Sarabande Books Young Professionals Board.
She is represented by Martha Wydysh at Trident Media Group.
Publications
Her work has been featured in Sycamore Review, Cleaver Magazine, Atticus Review, and elsewhere. Her novel manuscript, We Love You, Daisy Buchanan, won the 2021 Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest in the General Fiction category. Her flash fiction has also been longlisted for the 2018 Best Small Fictions Anthology.
Editorial
Kaitlyn acted as the Fiction Editor of Porter House Review from 2019-2020. She has worked on the editorial board for Paper Darts Magazine, served as an associate for Kenyon Review, and interned for Louisville’s Underwired Magazine.