Upcoming events.
There’s very little I like more than talking about books, and I’m ecstatic to be about to spend the next few months talking about my very own first book Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage, coming in October 2025 from Wm. B Eerdmans! I’ll be adding dates and details to the tour schedule below, so stay tuned!! Would love to see you!
Please direct all media and speaking inquiries to Kelly’s publicist, Katelynn Dryer:
katelynn(at)kayepublicity(dot)com
Inquiries about events can be sent to Eleanor Imbody:
eleanor(at)kayepublicity(dot)com
Writers Open Studio
Come join us at the Monticello Arts Initiative for monthly Writers Open Studio! We’ll respond to prompts, brainstorm, share ideas and work. It’ll be a great time!
Writers Open Studio
Come join us at the Monticello Arts Initiative for monthly Writers Open Studio! We’ll respond to prompts, brainstorm, share ideas and work. It’ll be a great time!
Writers Open Studio
Come join us at the Monticello Arts Initiative for monthly Writers Open Studio! We’ll respond to prompts, brainstorm, share ideas and work. It’ll be a great time!
BOOK LAUNCH IN CHICAGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come join me for a pub day party in Chicago!!! Details coming soon!
Memphis Book Launch with Lisa Kröger
Come join me in conversation with Stoker- and Locus- Award winning author (and member of my Coven group text) Lisa Kröger at Novel in Memphis!! Gonna talk Bram Stoker’s love for Walt Whitman and his wife/beard Florence Balcombe and connection to Oscar Wilde, and also a million other things!
Minneapolis Book Launch Event with Chris Stedman
Launch event at Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis with Chris Stedman, author of IRL and Faitheist and creator and host of the Unread podcast.
Monticello Book Launch Event with Ryan Berg at MontiArts
Come join me in Monticello, MN, as I chat with Minnesota Book Award winner and Lambda Literary Fellow Ryan Berg, author of No House to Call my Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions, and Program Manager at Minneapolis’ Avenues for Youth. Pictures, prizes, games, food, and more! Stay tuned!
Boston Book Launch Event with Nick White
Come join me in Boston as a I read excerpts from my book, distribute prizes, and chat with my fellow Mississippian Nick White, author of How to Survive a Summer and Sweet & Low. Location and details coming soon.
New Haven Book Launch Event with Sam Ernest
Come join me and the Yale Review’s own Sam Ernest at Possible Futures in beautiful New Haven!
Make & Tell at The Made Shop in Denver
Join me for a special “Make & Tell” at Denver’s The Made Shop, in collaboration with Made Shop founders, Marke and Kim Johnson, and their Emmy-Award winning creative team. I will read from my book, and there will be food, prizes, and games, as a well as an author convo with CU Boulder prof and award-winning local poet, Jen Grace Stewart.
Visiting Writer Series, PLNU in San Diego
I’ll be in San Diego talking about my book with Whale Road Review’s Katie Manning and The Rumpus’s Robbie Maakestad.
Los Angeles Book Launch Event
Come join me as a I read excerpts from my book and chat about writing with UCLA Writers Extension Director and award-winning poet and memoirist, Charles Jensen, author of Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres and Instructions Between Takeoff and Landing, and founder of Villain Era Lit. Location TBA soon.
Jackson Book Launch Event at Lemuria Books
Come join me in my HOMETOWN BOOK STORE, Lemuria Books, the same place I requested to visit on my tenth birthday, as I talk about writing with the writing teacher who changed my life (and who features prominently in my book), Dr. David Miller. Food, drink, prizes, games, laughter and tears! Gonna be fun!!
Minnesota State Arts Board Grant Panel
I’ll be working with panel reader colleagues to give feedback on grant applications for the FY26 Arts Education grants.
AWP Los Angeles
Announcements about readings are TBA, but come find me at AWP 2025 in Los Angeles!!
Podcasting from Below:
I’ll be giving the Introduction at this fantastic launch event for Good Judy Productions and Truer Crime. Black Garnet Books and Queermunity will both be there, and I could not be more honored.
Author Conversation: Cathy Park Hong, Su Hwang, and Sun Yung Shin
On April 30, at North Hennepin’s Grand Hall, please come see Cathy Park Hong in conversation with Su Hwang and Sun Yung Shin, (an event which I have organized and will help host as NHCC’s Director of Creative Writing).
One Poet, One Poem Offsite with Whale Road Review
Come see me read at the One Poet, One Poem event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on April 11!
MontiArts Open Mic
Come see me read here once a month. MontiArts.
MontiArts Garage, Monticello, MN
OFF SITE ON PURPOSE AWP KANSAS CITY (Copy)
AWP Folks! Come see me as one of the featured readers from last year’s Whale Road Review!