Kayla Geitzler

From Moncton NB, Kayla Geitzler’s adventurous spirit has taken her all over the world, and onto cruise ships. This inspired her first poetry collection That Light Feeling Under Your Feet. Published by NeWest Press, it won the 2016 Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Bailey Prize, made the Calgary Bestseller List, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Fiddlehead Poetry Prize and Alberta Publishers’ Award.

The CBC has recognized Kayla as a poet who reflects “the enduring strength of the literary form in this country” and All Lit Up has named her a “Rad Woman of Canadian Poetry”.

Kayla holds an MA in English Creative Writing from UNB, has worked on the largest pipeline projects in Canada, and designed courseware for Air Traffic Controllers. She is the host of the Attic Owl Reading Series, the WFNB Moncton Rep, and a member of Poetry in Voice and the League of Canadian Poets. Her writing has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Gnaw and Gnarl: A Chapbook of NB Poets Poetry is Dead, Les Effeuilleuses, Galleon, and most recently in Thirteen: New Collected Poems from LGBTQI2S Writers in Canada. She is co-editor of the forthcoming multilingual chapbook of NB Women Writers Cadence.

In June 2019, Kayla opened her own editing and writing business to help companies and writers capture their best writing. Her editing and mentoring approach is focused on enhancing each client’s unique vision or voice.