Creative Writer and Journalist
Kailey Aiken
Journalism
“It’s More Than Just A Job,” feature article in an annual summer magazine for The Rockaway Times.
“Day in the Life(guard),” weekly summer columns in The Rockaway Times.
WSL Women’s Surfing Spotlight, weekly sports columns on the “medium” platform.
“The Complexity of the Solutions to Superstorm Sandy in Rockaway Beach,”
journalistic research paper.
American Surf Magazine contributor page
Short Stories:
“Clouds Above The Cove” a surfer’s spiritual experience in the water, and a Florida Authors and Publishers (FAPA) Literary Scholar Award-winning short story.
“The Swell” a rock ‘n’ rock infused love story set in the 70s.
Creative Writing
About
Kailey Aiken is a junior at the University of Tampa, majoring in writing and minoring in journalism. She is an avid reader and writer, and plans to pursue writing and/or editing as a career after graduating college. She has written for her local newspaper as a columnist for two summers now, has worked as an editor on my school’s research journal, “Q: Journal for Research and Inquiry,” currently writes for American Surf Magazine, and writes creatively whenever I can.
She is originally from Rockaway Beach, New York, where she spends her summers on the beach, lifeguarding, surfing, reading, and hanging out with family and friends.
