KELSEY AUSTIN

Prose Writer & Playwright

Artist Statement

My work reflects my curiosity about how people operate and what they think of their own lives. I’m drawn to partnerships and family systems under pressure, specifically the tension between loyalty to others and loyalty to the self.

Place is used as another character in my prose and plays. I choose settings deliberately and make a point to show why place matters and how it can act as a force upon the characters.

**Check Out Domestic Disturbances!**

Bottlecap Press recently published my new chapbook of flash fiction Domestic Disturbances. Below is an excerpt from the book’s listing:

Domestic Disturbances includes snapshot and traditional narratives where the characters are raw, the world is off-kilter, and the most intimate of relationships are fraught. In noticing and paying attention to the ordinary, the reader sees that life is anything but.

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