Kalila Holt is a radio producer and fiction writer. She's from Chicago and currently lives in Brooklyn. She has been published in wigleaf, The Baltimore Review, Salamander, and The New York Times, among others. She’s the senior producer of Jonathan Goldstein's Heavyweight, and has worked on the show since its first season back in 2016.

Kalila Holt is good at reaching things on high shelves. Kalila Holt is bad at Tetris. A lot of old people say she reminds them of their niece because "you both have long hair."