Kelsey Norris is a writer and editor from Alabama. Her work has been published in the Oxford American, The Georgia Review, and The Offing. She was a 2020 Tin House Summer Workshop attendee, and is an alumni of the MFA program at Vanderbilt University. She is currently at work on a story collection. Find more of her work at kelseynorris.com.
Having some novelist (or poet or playwright) assert an individual consciousness—in and of itself— is a profoundly threatening act if you’re a dictator.