McKayla Rosser was born in Sacramento, California on October 24th, 1995. She was so eager to see the world that she escaped from her mother’s womb nearly four months early and required heart surgery and some time in an incubator to survive. Her premature birth resulted in a rare vocal cord disorder called dysphonia. 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. Throughout her early years, she dabbled in violin and piano lessons and began composing music on her father’s Macintosh computer in high school. She also wrote short stories which she passed around the class to her peers.

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.

Today, she resides in Milwaukee, WI. She enjoys hiking, reading, writing, composing music, spending time with her partner, and watching way too much reality television.