Kelly Sargent is a hard of hearing writer and artist adopted in Luxembourg. She is the author of an award-nominated memoir in verse entitled Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion (Kelsay Books, 2022), in which she reflects on growing up with her Deaf twin sister in Europe and the United States.
She has written for SIGNews, a newspaper for the Deaf and hard of hearing community, and worked with Deaf students in education. She serves as Creative Nonfiction Editor of The Bookends Review and on the Editorial Board of Beyond Words.
Her cover art and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in more than eighty literary journals, most recently including Rattle, Chestnut Review, and Broad River Review. Honors include: The Rash Award in Poetry finalist, Eric Hoffer Award nominee, Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems nominee, and two-time Best of the Net nominee.
She is also the author of Bookmarks (Red Moon Press, 2023), a collection of haiku and senryu poems, and a children's storybook entitled Sundae Sundays, winner of the international Firebird Book Award (Children’s Inspirational).
Visit her website to learn more about her:
www.kellysargent.com
Paperback: 42 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (March 14, 2024)
Also available on Kindle
Review:
Highland Park Poetry Review
The Wise Owl
Storyteller Poetry Review