Welcome!

Photo of Kella by C. Smyth Photography, June 2022. Gelato for life.

​Ahoy! My name is Michaella Thornton, but all my friends call me Kella. I'm a lower Midwestern writer who loves exploring language, landscape, and literature. Love: cannoli, kayaking, stargazing, writing essays and flash prose, and my incredible daughter. Meh: subpar coffee, people who pronounce Missouri as Missourah, mayonnaise-based coleslaw, hopelessness. 

Want to get ahold of me? Please visit the Contact section or email me at: michaella[dot]thornton[at]gmail[dot]com

​Some of my recent or forthcoming writing:

• "Why A Mother Teaches Her Daughter to Shovel Snow," forthcoming in Moon City Review, Spring 2023. 
• "The Pie Was a Final Draft: Good Grief," in Reckon Review, February 2023. 
• "Text to My Daughter's Daisy Troop Leader," in Pithead Chapel, February 2023. 
• "The Pie Was a Final Draft: On Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls and the Root of All Suffering," in Reckon Review, November 2022. 
• "With All the Other Lonely-Hearts of South Grand," in Ruby, November 2022. 
• "Beginnings: An Interview with Lyndsey Ellis," in Reckon Review, August 2022.
• "What Comes to Mind When You Call Me A Goddess," in The Citron Review: A Journal of Brief Literature, June 2022. 
• "The Pie Was a Final Draft: On Baking a Bad Cake," in Reckon Review, May 2022. 
• "Cuffing Season in Your 40s," in Complete Sentence, March 2022. *Nominated for Best of the Net 2022*
• "The Dead Jar" in the anthology, And If That Mockingbird Don't Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative, January 2022.
• "The Pie Was the Final Draft: Scraps" in Reckon Review, January 2022.
• "On Loving Wayne's World from 1992 to 2022" in The Daily Drunk, January 2022.​​

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