{"id":1867,"date":"2023-09-11T21:14:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T04:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/?post_type=tribe_organizer&#038;p=1867"},"modified":"2023-09-29T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T19:10:34","slug":"kayla-kumari-upadhyaya","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/kayla-kumari-upadhyaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya<\/strong> is a lesbian writer of short fiction, essays, and pop culture criticism living in Florida. She is the managing editor of<em>\u00a0Autostraddle<\/em>\u00a0and the assistant managing editor of\u00a0<em>TriQuarterly<\/em>. Her work appears in\u00a0<em>McSweeney\u2019s Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, The Rumpus, Joyland, Vice, Vulture<\/em>, and others. She was a 2021 nonfiction fellow for Lambda Literary\u2019s Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices.\u00a0<em>Helen House<\/em>\u00a0is her first book.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1868\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Helen-House-product-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Helen-House-product-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Helen-House-product-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Helen-House-product-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Helen-House-product-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Helen-House-product-1140x1140.png 1140w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Helen-House-product-920x920.png 920w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Helen-House-product-575x575.png 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Helen-House-product-380x380.png 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Helen-House-product-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Helen-House-product-800x800.png 800w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Helen-House-product-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Helen-House-product.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is a lesbian writer of short fiction, essays, and pop culture criticism living in Florida. She is the managing editor of\u00a0Autostraddle\u00a0and the assistant managing editor of\u00a0TriQuarterly. Her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1869,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_organizer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1867\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}