Kyla Mora is a high school teacher with a decade of experience teaching literature, English, and journalism. She is also a published journalist whose reporting carried her from local papers in Texas to the USA Today network outlet in Guam. As a neurodivergent kid, she learned how to harness the ways her brain worked differently from others through her own experience and from her mother, a special education teacher. She is a lifelong bookworm who loves fiction and film, acts in local theater productions, and can’t stop rescuing abandoned animals. She lives in the Houston, Texas, area with her husband, Jedidiah.