Kaylyn Groves is a novelist obsessed with misfittedness/belonging and betrayal/loyalty, a preoccupation born of a nomadic childhood in Provincetown then Dallas then San Francisco, with parents who separated, reunited, and divorced.

As an adult, Kaylyn has continued searching for home, first in Maine for college, back in San Francisco, then in DC, Charlottesville, Eugene, DC again, Austin, Nashville, and now Chattanooga. She found one home in librarianship—earning her MLS from Catholic University and working as an academic librarian for three years before going to work as a writer and editor for the Association of Research Libraries in 1999.

Kaylyn found another home in writing fiction. She has taken novel workshops with Michael Koryta, Steve Almond, and Ivy Pochoda at Writers in Paradise, Lighthouse Lit Fest, and the Fine Arts Work Center, among others. Kaylyn is querying for her first and second novel manuscripts: FLAPPERS AND FUGITIVES and OUR LADY OF THE MILK, which was a Killer Nashville Judges’ Top Pick for the 2025 Claymore Awards in the Southern Gothic category.