Maria Kelson

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Flexible Bones, a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in Poetry, and How Long She'll Last in This World, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award in Poetry, are available through University of Arizona Press (published as Maria Melendez).

Recent short fiction: "Optimize Us" at strandmag.com and "What If the Whole Camp of Kids Learned How to Liquefy?" at Lightspeed.

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My contemporary thriller, Not the Killing Kind, won Sisters in Crime's inaugural Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for a crime fiction work-in-progress by a writer of color ... and is forthcoming as my debut novel from Crooked Lane Books on September 10, 2024! Check out the Cover Reveal below.