Kayla Smith

Kayla Smith grew up in South Mississippi but spent the past decade living in Rhode Island, New York, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University and her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. Her work has appeared in The Toast, Deep South Magazine, Allegory Ridge, and Gravel.
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  • Repentance

    The Magazine
    One Friday each fall, Missionary Baptist girls from all over the state of Mississippi were excused from school to journey in their church vans to the cabins of Camp Garaywa for the annual Girls Missionary Auxiliary overnight retreat
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