Kelsey Bryan-Zwick

is a disabled, queer, bilingual immigrant, and author based in Los Angeles, California. Their debut poetry collection, Here Go the Knives (Moon Tide Press 2022)—part memoir, part magical realism, part illustration—focuses on their decades surviving with debilitating scoliosis. Kelsey is The Poetry Lab’s Assistant Director, a Los Angeles Poet Society organizer, and Acting Chair of Produced Media for the Stonewall Democratic Club. Kelsey is a UC Santa Cruz alum (go banana slugs!) and their poetry has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, as well for the Best of the Net. On the gram @theexquisitepoet. Kelsey uses she/her and they/them pronouns.

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