Kindra M. Austin is an author and editor from Chesaning, Michigan, USA. Her debut novel was published in April, 2017. To date, Austin has published three poetry books Constant Muses, TWELVE, and All the Beginnings of Everything, a novel, Magpie in August,, and one novella, For You, Rowena. She is currently working on a second novel Royce with the Rose Gold Hair.

Other publications include several poems featured on SpillWords; contributions to Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I, Swear to Me, and All the Lonely People; and two essays advocating for LGBTQ rights, printed in the Ohio Mansfield Pride magazine. She also contributed to SMITTEN: This Is What Love Looks Like, and served as one of four editors for We Will Not Be Silenced: The Lived Experience of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Told Powerfully Through Poetry, Essay, and Art.

Austin has been writing for over twenty years. In 2008, she began blogging under different pseudonyms while briefly moonlighting as a writer/editor/internet radio personality. She's a founding member of Indie Blu(e) Publishing, and Blood Into Ink.