Kayla Geitzler has lived in New Brunswick for most of her life, except for that time when she went away to work on cruise ships, and that other time she went Out West. She inherited an adventurous spirit from a lineage of Norwegian sea captains and an Alsatian farm boy who ran away to become a bodyguard for Napoleon Bonaparte. She holds an MA in English — Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick and currently lives in Moncton, NB, with her shorthaired moustachioed cat and longhaired bearded boyfriend.

"“In her formidable poetic debut, Kayla Geitzler navigates a world of ‘unregulated overtime and tip skimming’ aboard the cruise ship Saturnalia. No mere three-hour tour, That Light Feeling Under Your Feet is an unflinching portrait of life at sea, and the discrimination, racism, and misogyny inherent in the tourism industry. Darkly humorous and deftly realized, the poems in That Light Feeling Under Your Feet stick in the mind like ‘endless leviathans’ harnessing the controlled chaos of the word.” — Jim Johnstone, author of The Chemical Life"