Getting Physical

is a Pushcart Prize-winning author and the Assistant Director of The Poetry Lab. A multi-modal creative whose debut book of poems, Here Go the Knives  (Moon Tide Press 2022) is part memoir, part magical realism, part illustration and focuses on their decades surviving with debilitating scoliosis. A graduate of UCSC (go Banana Slugs!) Kelsey has helped develop The Poetry Lab’s online and accessible workshop model and continues to tend the literary hub of online community for rogue poet-scholars throughout the world.

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