Kayleigh Norgord is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Write or Die Magazine, New Delta Review, The Potomac Review, Harpur Palate, and others. She received a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA from the University of California-Davis, where she co-chaired the Fig & Axle reading series and was awarded the Gilbert Prize in poetry. She is the recipient of a Writing by Writers fellowship and has taught writing workshops at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee and the University of California-Davis. Born and raised in Wisconsin, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and is at work on her first novel.

Writing + Interviews

The Dive Reflex - Forthcoming

The Bimbo Bandit - Write Or Die Magazine (#1 Most Read Fiction of 2024)

Fiction Spotlight Interview - Write Or Die Magazine

Circe Sexting - New Delta Review

Wisconsin Effigy - Storm Cellar

Taxidermy - Harpur Palate

Quietly, Repeatedly, Without Validation - The Potomac Review

Marilyn, 1962 - Illumination Journal

The Scent of It - Anthologized

Awards + Recognition

Most Read Fiction, Write or Die Magazine

Writing by Writers Tomales Bay Fellowship

Stories on Stage Featured Writer

Gilbert Prize

Celeste Turner Wright Award

Henry Douglas Mackaman Writers Award

Eudora Welty Prize

Lynden Innovative Educators Institute

Kenyon Review Summer Workshop (Declined)

Contact

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