McKayla Higgins (née Rosser) was born in Sacramento, California on October 24th, 1995. When she was a kindergartner and a teacher asked McKayla what she wanted to be when she grew up, she proudly proclaimed she longed to be a writer. The passion for writing stuck.

In her senior year of high school, her family relocated to Arlington, TX where she graduated from Sam Houston High School and began attending Tarrant County Community College. While earning her associate’s degree in English through a combination of courses at TCC and online classes with Great Basin College, she continued composing music, started the film blog The Foxy Film Fan, and wrote articles for Tarrant County Community College’s newspaper, The Collegian (named University and College Newspaper of the Year by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors).

Armed with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University, she finished her first novel, American Garbage, a dark take on reality television and the horrors of poverty.

As a gay disabled woman who has a vocal cord disorder called muscle tension dysphonia, McKayla is passionate about using her writing to provide LGBT representation, disability representation, and truthful representation of poverty in America.

Today, she resides in Milwaukee, WI, where she is working on her second novel. She enjoys hiking, reading, writing, playing piano, spending time with her spouse, and watching way too many movies.