Kayleigh Marinelli is a writer, researcher, editor, and teacher. Marinelli’s debut novel, The Fantastic Fabricated Life of Lyle Farker, was published in 2021. Her work has been published in literary journals, short story collections, and poetry collections. She earned her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) in 2019.
Kayleigh Marinelli wrote her first story about the grim reaper when she was six. Ever since, she has not stopped writing. Her work transverses different modes and mediums, focusing on the power of the human condition through grief, mania, and self-transformation.
Her first young adult novel, The Fantastic Fabricated Life of Lyle Farker, is available for purchase at your favorite place to buy books online. You can find her short pieces in Ink Stains: A Dark Fiction Literary Anthology and Helen Literary Magazine, as well as, poetry in Inkwell Journal and Gravitas. She continues to read, write, and teach in NYC where she is concocting her first horror novel.
“Her eyes always looked like exploding irises. Just as I imagine her skull and brain matter when they came into contact with the windshield. The people who arrived on scene first said that she died on impact. That there was no way someone could sustain that amount of trauma and live to feel it.
That was supposed to offer me peace of mind.
As a police officer, I have seen my fair share of bodies in various states of trauma. It never gets easier. It gets harder--looking at the husks of humans that according to many religions once had souls. I’ve stared into their eyes and seen nothing staring back. A language that only speaks in the tongues of arson and bullet holes.” Excerpt from: One Night at the American Hotel, coming soon.