Hello.
​Mikayla Randolph (she/her) is an author based in California. She writes primarily in the horror genre, and her work features feminist underpinnings and mixes lyrical style with heavy doses of snark. She has a BA in Communication from the University of New Hampshire with a focus on Interpersonal Communication. She is pursuing a Publishing and Editing Certificate from UCLA Extension and works at Evan-Moor Educational Publishers. Her short fiction has been published in The Chamber Magazine, Watershed Review, and Coffin Bell. She is a member of the Horror Writers Association and the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. Her favorite stories are ones that pit complicated, vulnerable characters against the darkest parts of themselves and, even with bleak or ambiguous endings, dare the readers to find hope.
Completed Works.
When Darkness Arrives
Two women, a young nanny and a powerful CEO, hurtling towards an intense confrontation over the child they both love, are haunted by a malevolent entity. They’ll need to decide whether to cave to their festering animosities, or band together to save the child they love, and themselves.
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Not Your Final Girl
Don’t Fear the Reaper meets The Guest List with a sprinkle of Promising Young Woman.
A slasher partial reimagining of Tess of the D’urbervilles where a group of estranged high school frenemies reuniting at a luxury cabin in the woods are hunted by a masked killer.
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