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Kelsey Ronan

Kelsey Ronan grew up in Flint, Michigan, and lives in Metro Detroit. Her work has appeared in Literary Hub, Michigan Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is the author of the novel Chevy in the Hole (Holt, 2022), which was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Michigan Notable Book.

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Spring 2025

Cry Room

By Kelsey Ronan

Along the rows of people at the Detroit Film Theatre, tendrils of perfume and coconut oil and stale cigarette smoke curl up from the ends of hair, from the fibers […]