Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is a lesbian writer of short fiction, essays, and pop culture criticism living in Florida. She is the managing editor of Autostraddle and the assistant managing editor of TriQuarterly. Her work appears in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, The Rumpus, Joyland, Vice, Vulture, and others. She was a 2021 nonfiction fellow for Lambda Literary’s Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. Helen House is her first book.

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Mythologies: Stephanie Adams-Santos & Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

Portland Art Museum Miller Gallery 1119 SW Park Ave, Portland, United States

Stephanie Adams-Santos's incantatory long poem draws the reader into a dreamworld where the barrier between life and death grows porous, populated by ancestors and spirits. Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's debut story collection is a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood. Moderated by Kayla Kumari Upadhyahya.

Pop-Up: Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya pops-up for a reading in the Portland Art Museum galleries with her novelette Helen House.