“You were ashes.” As I stood in the doorway of my sister Everette’s bedroom just past midnight, tears were warm and sticky…
Kyra Ann Dawkins
Kyra Ann Dawkins is an emerging cross-genre writer and graduate student in the MFA Creative Writing Program (Fiction) at the Columbia University School of the Arts. Shorter pieces of hers have been published in The Plain Dealer, Quarto Magazine, and other collections. Her debut dystopian novel, The We and the They, was published in July 2020. You can often find her annoying her younger siblings with constant Disney references. Kyra hopes that she and her writing will go the distance.