Kyla Neufeld is a poet, writer, and editor. She’s been published in Geez Magazine, The Goose, Vallum, and Rune Bear. She also writes for Prairie Books NOW.
Poems
“Dame Dragon” and “The Wolves Discuss Hunting Tips,” Honeyguide Magazine, Issue 2, “Mythical Creatures,” Summer 2021
“Kraken at Home,” The Goose, Vol 18, No 2, Summer 2020
“First Mother,” Rune Bear, Summer 2020
“The Shape of Our Life: Poems for saint benedict’s table,” artist residency, Summer 2019
“Ratatosk,” Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, “The Wild,” Vol 13, No 2, Winter 2016
Articles for Prairie Books NOW
Poet hopes to help readers understand schizophrenia, treatments, and abuses, Issue 79, Fall/Winter 2021
Journeys are acts of expectation in Caroline Wong’s new collection, Issue 78, Spring/Summer 2021
Collection comes together through staying with poems, letting themes reveal themselves, Issue 77, Fall/Winter 2020
Poet reflects on her grandparents’ lives through poetry and collected letters, artifacts, Issue 76, Spring/Summer 2020
Poetic exchanges between Monahan and Thompson lead to a book-length collection, Issue 75, Fall/Winter 2019
Debut poetry collection mixes grief with humour, Issue 74, Spring/Summer 2019
Motivation for playwrights, comedy for readers, Issue 73, Fall/Winter 2018
Misc. Articles
“When the Entwives Return,” Geez Magazine, “CO2conspirators,” Issue 57, Summer 2020
“Rethinking Fanfiction and its Role in Gender Inequality” | “Menstruation in Space: The Stigma of Jupiter’s Great Spot” | “The Sacred Texts of Geek Culture” | “Monstrous Bodies: Fat Shaming in Geek Culture,” Never Split the Party (And other Wisdom from Geek Culture that Changed my Life) Vol 1., Mythos & Ink, 2019
“Abandoning the Blind: Depravity and Hope During a Pandemic” | “A Multitude of Stars: Why I’m Not Afraid of Death,” Always Look Up (And other Wisdom from Geek Culture that Changed my Life) Vol 2., Mythos & Ink, 2020
Editing Projects
Be It Resolved, Mennonite Church Canada, copy editor, 2020
Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization, Mennonite Church Canada, copy and poetry editor, 2018
Lifting Hearts Off the Ground: Declaring Indigenous Rights in Poetry, Mennonite Church Canada, copy and poetry editor, 2017
Wrongs to Rights: How Churches can Engage the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Mennonite Church Canada, copy editor, 2016
Become What you Receive: saint benedict’s table, Told and Retold, saint benedict’s table publishing, editor, 2014
K. Neufeld Editing 