Kayleigh Jayshree

Kayleigh is a poet, critic and short story writer.
Kayleigh was accepted into the 2022-2023 Roundhouse Poetry Collective, and ‘The Moth Poem’ was commended in the Poetry Society’s August Challenge Competition. She was a 2023 Poetry Business Resident with Karishma Sangtani. Her poem ‘Anniversary-Dream’ was one of three winners in the Young Poets Network Love Collage Challenge competition. She was shortlisted for a Creative Futures Award in 2024.
Her work has appeared in Butcher’s Dog, Ink Sweat & Tears, PN Review and fourteen poems. Her debut pamphlet is forthcoming in August 2025 from fourteen poems.
Kayleigh was also part of the 2022 Apples & Snakes Writing Room, the 2023 Critics Collective.
She works in publishing in London.