Poet • Editor • Advocate


“I don’t want to keep living like this, but I do want to live. and sometimes, that’s enough.”

– I Don’t Want to Die


Kaycee Painter

Kaycee Painter (she/her) is a disabled writer and poet from Dalton, Georgia. Her work explores chronic illness, disability, trauma, and the complicated ways people learn to survive. When she isn’t writing, she can usually be found tending her flower garden or caring for her family.