She’s had her work featured on the East Van Poetry’s Salon’s Best Poems of 2016 list, the 2014 CBC Non-Fiction Prize longlist, the 2014 Vancouver Fringe Festival, and the 2013 Vancouver Burlesque Longform show at the Rio Theatre. A veteran slam poet and co-host of the long-running Open Mic at the Lyceum in Kitsilano, Kelsey has taken poetry into every corner of Vancouver and found community in doing so. When she’s not writing, Kelsey is a lindy hop swing dancer and sexual health educator.