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Kelly Sundberg

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Kelly Sundberg's memoir, Goodbye, Sweet Girl, was published by HarperCollins in 2018. Her essay "It Will Look Like a Sunset" was first published in Guernica and later anthologized in Best American Essays 2015. Many other essays have been listed as notables in the same series. Her essays have appeared in Gulf Coast, Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, The New York Times, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Vermont Studio Center, Dickinson House, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her essay collection, The Answer is in the Wound, is forthcoming from Roxane Gay Books in 2025. She writes and edits in Columbus, Ohio.

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