The Woman Behind the Words
Meet Angela Smith
writing as Kaylin Renea
Angela Smith — known to readers as Kaylin Renea — is the author of the Holler & Hellfire paranormal romance series, the co-creator of the Holler & Hellfire Universe alongside her fiancé Brian Lee Webb, and the storyteller behind an expanding Appalachian gothic IP universe spanning novels, canon bibles, character mythology, companion music, merchandise, and future digital experiences.
Angela is a native Missourian, born and raised in the heartland, currently living in Barry County, Missouri — near the Arkansas border, where the Ozark hills begin to soften into something quieter and older than history. That relationship with land that holds its own secrets, its own memory, and its own frequency is something she carries directly into her writing.
At 43 years old, Angela came to the Holler & Hellfire universe not as a casual visitor to a genre, but as a woman with something specific and burning to say — about faith, about women who hold things that have no name, about the divine as something ancient and democratic and deeply tied to the land beneath your feet.
Angela describes herself as an Omni believer — someone on an active, searching journey toward what she calls the real enlightenment frequency. That spiritual restlessness lives on every page of the Holler & Hellfire books: in the Thinning, in the hollow witches' practice, in the Watchers who fell because something in the mortal world spoke to something in them that the formal framework couldn't contain.
She is engaged to Brian Lee Webb, CEO of Holler & Hellfire Records and co-creator of the universe — her partner in life, in work, and in building something that neither of them could have built alone.
