Kayleigh Noel Ford is a fiction writer and Baltimore native whose creative interests lie in the physical and emotional female body, repression, convention, anger, and desire. She graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University in spring of 2021 with a bachelor's degree in English and a minor in French. A recipient of the Morse Hamilton Fiction Writing Prize and the Morton N. Cohen Creative Writing Award, her undergraduate senior honors thesis was comprised of a collection of short stories. She continues to work on her short fiction at the MFA program. Her Substack newsletter, “clueless loving” is a catalogue of her personal and spiritual life and is published weekly. She is the current fiction editor for Salt Hill Journal.