About K.M. Herbert
Author & Creative Practitioner
Kayla ‘K.M.’ Herbert is a British Canadian author and poet based in Yorkshire. Her debut novel, The Book of Moons, was published in 2020 by Fisher King Publishing. She published her poetry collection Between the Spaces independently in 2019 and has performed her work at the Ilkley Literature Festival and the Leeds Art Gallery, as well as other local venues across Yorkshire. She has a BA in English Literature from McGill University and is currently pursuing an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. In 2023, her work-in-progress, Behind the Green Sky, won a Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Margaret Carey scholarship and was longlisted for WriteMentor’s Novel-in-Development Award.
Publishing credits:
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Between the Spaces - poetry collection (Self-published 2019)
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'My mother's handbag', 'Aran knitting' & 'Our souls' (First Awakening: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Ings Press 2019)
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The Book of Moons - Young Adult urban fantasy novel (Fisher King Publishing 2020)
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'Broken cars' (The end is where we start: A New Beginnings Anthology, Leeds Trinity University 2023)
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Co-writer for 'Adrift Island' expansion of Deathmatch Island - RPG tabletop game (Old Dog Games 2024)
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'The hair under my chin' (Hauntology, Twisted Ink 2024)
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'She belongs' (Cities Anthology, Leeds Trinity University 2024)