I’m Kelsey, and at the age of 10 I told a journalist for the local paper that I wanted to write the Great American Novel. Still working on that one, but ever since I can remember I have been in love with novels. I would love to help you write yours.

I love books that hit me in the gut, that feel like nothing I’ve ever read before. My favorites include The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffeneger, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. In my own writing, I love diving into rich worldbuilding, spelunking around the ways in which the feminine scares the shit out of people, and digging around in the dirt of our weird humanity.

Kelsey Jayne Marshall is an editor and writer living in South Carolina. Her work has been published in Painted Bride Quarterly, Meat For Tea: The Valley Review, and Miscellany. Her short collection of personal essays and poems titled "thank you, love you, bye" was published in 2020. She is the editor-in-chief of Heather Press, and a section editor for Queen's University of Charlotte's literary magazine, Q. In 2026, she was a semi-finalist in the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards.