Baylina is a writer based in New York City. She graduated from Yale in 2023 and received her MFA from Columbia University in 2025, where she was awarded the Felipe De Alba Fellowship. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net. You can find her past and upcoming classes here.

At Yale, Baylina read for The Yale Review and served as Literary Editor of The Yale Literary Magazine. She also sang and toured as a member of the all-senior a cappella group Whim ’n Rhythm.

Press:

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, “Yale College Poets Reading,” 2023
The Yale Daily News, “Whiffenpoofs and Whim ’n Rhythm tap 2023 classes,” 2022
The Yale Daily News, “WORD and YUJC Collaborate in Virtual Audio-Visual Event,” 2021
Spectrum News, “Long Beach Opera Commissions New Works From Emerging Composers Amid Pandemic,” 2020
The Yale Daily News, “WORD performs ‘Friday the WORDteenth,’” 2020