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Kelsey L. Smoot

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Kelsey L. Smoot (They/He) is a doctoral candidate in American Studies. They are also a poet, advocate, and frequent writer of critical analysis. Kelsey is the winner of the 2021 Sad Girls Club Spring Literary Contest, the 2023 The Good Life Review Honeybee Prize, and the Grand Prize Winner of the 2024 Button Poetry Video Contest. He is both Pushcart Prize nominee, as well as a Best of the Net nominee. Proudly, Kelsey the author of a chapbook titled we was bois together with CLASH! (An Imprint of Mouthfeel Press) and another chapbook, Muse, with Another New Calligraphy.

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