Kyla Hanington is a Canadian writer and editor now living in Maryland. Her work has appeared in magazines in the United States and in Canada and has been broadcast internationally on CBC Radio’s The Sunday Edition. She is the drama editor for The Loveliest Review, served as a reader for the 2025, 2022, and 2021 Firecracker Awards, was a panelist at the Southern Literary Festival 2022, a fellow for the Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference 2021, and was a fiction and nonfiction editor at Ponder Review and a nonfiction editor at Variant Literature.
Kyla is working on a family study memoir tentatively titled Two Ships and has completed a short story manuscript, which is currently looking for its home.
As a person who returned to university at 35 years old, Kyla is an advocate for returning students and for the transformative power of higher education. She received her BA from Vancouver Island University and completed her MFA in Creative Writing at Mississippi University for Women. She thanks those institutions for their ongoing work changing individual lives and, through them, the world.
In 2021, Kyla established the Kyla Hanington Award for single mothers at Vancouver Island University. Learn more about it here.