About K E Garland

K E Garland is an award-winning creative nonfiction writer based in Florida.
For the past eight 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 has won two writing awards:
For the past eight 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 has won two writing awards:
- 2021 Royal Palms Literary Award for blogging, "Mental Health Matters"
- 2016 Royal Palms Literary Award for unpublished creative nonfiction, "The Transition"