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Kelsey Costa is an educator and multi-genre writer. She holds a BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College. Her nonfiction is forthcoming in Pangyrus Literary Magazine’s Zest!, published in Ruminate Magazine, and her essay Trapped Spirit was a semi-finalist in the 2021 Ruminate VanderMey Nonfiction Prize.
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Kelsey Costa (she/hers) is an educator and writer of speculative fiction and creative nonfiction. Her writing explores the diaspora experience, identity (including personal and social), effects of the environment on the human experience, how to appreciate what treasures life gives us, and inspirations from fairy tales and folklore. She is working on several novels, short stories, and essays at once—it’s impossible for her brain to stop thinking of ideas! When she is not writing, you can often find Kelsey playing RPG video games, watching the latest shoujo anime series, or playing with her delightfully mischievous dachshund.
She holds a BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College. Kelsey loves to volunteer her time to her communities and is the Programs Chair Manager for the Women’s National Book Association—Boston Chapter, a first reader for khōréō Magazine, and a staff member at Anime Boston. She has also presented at New England conferences on both fiction and nonfiction writing.
Her nonfiction is forthcoming in Pangyrus Literary Magazine’s Zest!: A Table to Hold the World, and her flash nonfiction was published in Ruminate Magazine. Her personal essay, Trapped Spirit, placed as a semi-finalist in the 2021 Ruminate VanderMey Nonfiction Prize.
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