Bio

CANDICE KELSEY currently teaches at a private high school in Augusta, GA. She holds her B.A. from Miami University (OH) and her M.A from Loyola Marymount University, both in English. Candice is the co-founder of a private high school in Santa Monica, CA, and has served as an essay evaluator for both the College Board and the U.S. Department of Education. Her poetry appears in Poets Reading the News and Poet Lore among other journals, and her first collection, Still I am Pushing, explores mother-daughter relationships. She is proud to serve PEN AMERICA as a Mentor in their Prison Writing Program.

Her micro-chapbook The Pier House is available from the Origami Poetry Project. She won the 2019 Two Sisters’ Writing Contest for her micro story, was chosen as a finalist in Cutthroat's Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, and was recently nominated for both a Best of the Net and two Pushcarts. She is an unabashed fan of Murder, She Wrote as well as opera and The Beatles. She and her family are passionate advocates for animal rights and foster youth. You can find her @CandiceKelsey1 and www.candicemkelseypoet.com.