Shayla Frandsen earned an MFA in fiction in Utah and an MA in English in New York City. Her poems, stories, and essays can be found in places like New England Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Under the Sun, Literary Mama, The Exposition Review, and many others.

In 2024, she was awarded first place in the Smokelong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. In 2023, she was awarded first place in both the Plentitudes Prize in Fiction and the Blue Earth Review Dog Daze Flash Fiction contests. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize.

When she is not writing, Shayla teaches rhetoric and composition at Utah Valley University. When she is not writing or teaching, Shayla is spending time with her husband and three children, eating soft cheese, or reading fanfiction (& sometimes other stuff, too).

She is represented by Jill Marr at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.