M. M. Kaufman lives in Georgia. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Agnes Scott College in 2012. After graduation she traveled to the Maluku islands in Indonesia to teach English as a Fulbright Scholar.
Kaufman earned her MFA in the University of New Orleans’ Creative Writing Workshop. During this time she served as associate and then managing editor of Bayou Magazine. In 2017, she received an Honorable Mention for the Vassar Miller Poetry Award given by UNO. Upon graduation in 2018, she was awarded the Fredrick Barton Service Award for her work with Bayou Magazine. From 2015 to 2022, she worked for the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival and Saints + Sinners LGBTQ Literary Festival in social media and publicity.
She is currently the Managing Editor and social media coordinator for Rejection Letters where many of her photographs are also featured. She is a curator and social media manager for Micro Podcast where she has also conducted many author interviews. She worked as a fiction reader for No Contact Magazine and hosted a weekly book talk on their Instagram Live called “Morning Brew with MM.”
M. M. Kaufman has work published with and forthcoming from Slush Pile Magazine, Ellipsis, Memoir Mixtapes, Tuck Magazine, The Normal School, Hobart, Shift: A Journal of Literary Oddities, Metonym Journal, Sundog Lit, Orangeblush Zine, (mac)ro(mic), Our Name is Amplify, HAD: Hobart After Dark, Daily Drunk Magazine, Olney Magazine, The Miller Aud-cast, Pine Hills Review, Maudlin House, jmww, and Major 7th Magazine.
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