Kashana Cauley

Kashana Cauley is the author of the novel THE PAYBACK, a student loan industry heist novel which will be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster in Summer 2025. For more information, please fill out the form on the Contact Me page of this website.

She is also the author of THE SURVIVALISTS, which was published in January 2023 by Soft Skull Press, and named a best book of 2023 by the BBC, the Today Show, Vogue, and many other outlets. She’s also a TV writer who has written for The Great North, Pod Save America on HBO and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and a former contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She has written for The Atlantic, Esquire, The New Yorker, Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone, among other publications.