Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is a lesbian editor and writer of essays, fiction, and criticism living in Orlando. She is the managing editor of Autostraddle, where she has written for over a decade and where she also helps oversee the newly launched Autostraddle print magazine. She is also an assistant fiction editor at Foglifter, and her short stories appear in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, Joyland, The Rumpus, Cake Zine, and others as well as in the anthology Be Gay, Do Crime. Some of her culture writing can be found in The Cut, The A.V. Club, Vulture, Refinery29, and Vice. She has held fellowships with the McCormack Writing Center and Lambda Literary and was a Carolyn Moore House Writing Resident. Her first book, the queer horror novelette Helen House, was named one of the Best LGBTQ Books of 2022 by NBC News.