K E Garland is an award-winning creative nonfiction writer and blogger. She writes to demarginalize women’s issues. Her essays have been published in several anthologies, including Chicken Soup for the Soul’s I’m Speaking Now: Black Women Share their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope and Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels. Her work has also appeared in online magazines, such as midnight & indigo and Raising Mothers. Garland’s debut memoir, In Search of a Salve: Memoir of a Sex Addict, illustrates how unresolved, interrelated trauma can lead to a behavioral addiction. Her book was long listed for the 2023 Santa Fe Writers Project. Garland can be followed on IG @kegarland and Substack at kegarland.substack.com