About K E Garland
K E Garland is an award-winning creative nonfiction writer based in Florida.
For the past seven years, she has used personal essays and memoir to amplify women’s experiences, with an intent to highlight and humanize specific issues. Topics range from women’s diminishing abortion rights to why society focuses on breast cancer awareness when more women die from heart disease. Recent works have appeared in Raising Mothers and Chicken Soup for the Soul: I’m Speaking Now. Her most notable work is a chapter published in the award-winning, all-women’s anthology, All the Women in My Family Sing (2018), which personalizes the effects of being an affirmative-action hire.
K E's blog, Kwoted is currently a finalist for the 2021 Royal Palms Literary Award for her 2020 "Mental Health Matters" series. Kwoted features essays and stories from her past and current life and has a readership of over 11,000.
For the past seven years, she has used personal essays and memoir to amplify women’s experiences, with an intent to highlight and humanize specific issues. Topics range from women’s diminishing abortion rights to why society focuses on breast cancer awareness when more women die from heart disease. Recent works have appeared in Raising Mothers and Chicken Soup for the Soul: I’m Speaking Now. Her most notable work is a chapter published in the award-winning, all-women’s anthology, All the Women in My Family Sing (2018), which personalizes the effects of being an affirmative-action hire.
K E's blog, Kwoted is currently a finalist for the 2021 Royal Palms Literary Award for her 2020 "Mental Health Matters" series. Kwoted features essays and stories from her past and current life and has a readership of over 11,000.