Kelsey Day

Writer, USA

Kelsey Day is a writer from southern Appalachia. Their work has been published in The Atlantic, Freeman’s, The Appalachian Review and The Washington Square Review, among others. Their debut novel, The Spiral Key, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House in 2026.

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Aerial view of a large pipeline construction site with machinery and vehicles cutting through green fields and hills under a partly cloudy sky.

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Nature and landscape

Land loneliness

To survive, we are asked to forget that our lands and bodies are being violated, policed, ripped up, silenced, sacrificed

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