About K E Garland
Award-winning writer and blogger
K E Garland is an award-winning creative nonfiction writer and blogger based in Florida. She uses personal essays and memoir to de-marginalize women’s experiences with an intent to highlight and humanize contemporary issues. Her work has appeared in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, I'm Speaking Now: Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope, All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World—Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom, and other anthologies. She has a husband and two adult daughters and is an associate professor at a community college. In Search of a Salve is her debut memoir.
K E has won two writing awards:
K E Garland is an award-winning creative nonfiction writer and blogger based in Florida. She uses personal essays and memoir to de-marginalize women’s experiences with an intent to highlight and humanize contemporary issues. Her work has appeared in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, I'm Speaking Now: Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope, All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World—Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom, and other anthologies. She has a husband and two adult daughters and is an associate professor at a community college. In Search of a Salve is her debut memoir.
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- 2016 Royal Palms Literary Award for unpublished creative nonfiction, The Transition