Kayla Cayasso was born and raised in Jacksonville, along the banks of the St. Johns River. Her ongoing love-affair with the written word began in grade school and she hasn’t looked back since. She dabbles in poetry, short stories, stage plays, and most recently screenplays.

As a student at Florida A & M University in the African American Studies program, she is looking to bring some more color to the landscape of southern literature. Her writing attempts to create dialogue around the intersection of her Caribbean and Latinx cultures.

She is an avid meme enthusiast and enjoys coffee and likes to think of herself as an amateur beer snob and novelist-in-the-making. Her favorite activities include being asked what she plans to do after college, reading tarot, and having a snuggle on the couch with her cat, Voodoo.

Kayla’s comedic murder-mystery stage play Another Whodunit was produced and brought to life through the work of some very determined high school students in 2011, and in 2012 she was awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award for Creative Writing by Stanton College Preparatory School.

Cayasso will read in the JaxbyJax Student Showcase on Saturday, October 13th from 1:30 – 2:30 PM at Women Writing for a Change, 1610 Osceola Street.