Kelly Egan lives in California’s Bay Area and writes from dream, reverie, and long drives. She is the author of two chapbooks—Millennial, from White Stag, and A Series of Septembers, from Dancing Girl Press— and co-editor of the experimental poetic anthology Laknes.

Additional work can be found in Maiden Magazine, Interim, Colorado Review, Laurel Review, RHINO, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. Kelly has been the recipient of a Russell and Yvonne Lannan Poetry Prize, nominee for Best of the Net, semi-finalist for the Saturnalia Poetry Prize, and long listee for the Ghost Peach Press Poetry prize, among other awards.

She has an MFA from Saint Mary’s College of CA and has participated in writing residencies in Iceland and the Peruvian Amazon.