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Kelly Magee

Kelly Magee is the author of Body Language (UNT Press 2006), winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, as well as the collaborative collections With Animal (Black Lawrence Press 2015), and The Reckless Remainder (forthcoming from Noctuary Press), both co-written with Carol Guess. Her work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Passages North, Gulf Stream, and others. She is an Associate Professor in the undergraduate and MFA programs in creative writing at Western Washington University.

Summer 2012

weekend-readsYou’re Not Going to Die

By Kelly Magee

Franny fought the gridlock on I-Drive for an hour only to arrive at the Palmscape Funerarium too late—seven-thirty, the viewing had ended at seven. Instead of a funeral party she […]