Candice M. Kelsey is a writer and educator living in both Los Angeles and Georgia.
She is the author of seven books: Generation MySpace: Helping Your Teen Survive Online Adolescence (Marlowe & Co., 2007), Still I am Pushing (Finishing Line Press, 2020), A Girl / Woman / Teacher / Poet (Alien Buddha Press, 2022), The Poet Dreams of Driving a Ding-A-Ling Ice Cream Truck (Pine Row Press, 2023), Puzzling Things: Essays (Fauxmoir Press, 2023), Choose Your Own Poem (Cherry Dress Press, 2023), and Postcards from the Masthead (boats against the current press, 2024).
Longlisted by Wigleaf’s Top 50 Short Fiction in 2024 and a finalist for a Best Microfiction 2023, she won the University of Cincinnati Library’s Books by the Banks Prize 2022 and the Rebecca Laird Poetry Prize 2020. Her work has been featured in SWWIM, The Laurel Review, Poet Lore, Passengers Journal, and About Place, among others. She reads for The Los Angeles Review and is an unabashed fangirl of all things Murder, She Wrote, opera, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Website: www.candicemkelseypoet.com
Socials: @Feed_Me_Poetry
Paperback: 156 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (November 20, 2025)