Black Writers Read: K E Garland

This episode features our conversation with K E Garland, which was live streamed on Saturday, January 6, 2024. We chatted about her debut memoir, In Search of a Salve.

K E Garland is a 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. She has published essays with Midnight & Indigo, Raising Mothers, and For Harriet. Other works have 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.

Garland’s writing has been awarded twice with the Florida Writers Association for her unpublished creative nonfiction essay, “The Transition” and for her blogging series, “Mental Health Matters.” She is married with two adult daughters and is an associate professor at a community college. 

To learn more about K E and her work, please visit kegarland.com.

Special thanks to Danielle Jernigan who was featured on Season Three Episode Fourteen of Black Writers Read for introducing us to K E.

Find K E on Instagram: @kegarland