Maria Kelson

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Maria Kelson

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    Books, stories, workshops.

    Books, stories, workshops.Books, stories, workshops.Books, stories, workshops.

    Books, stories, workshops.

    Books, stories, workshops.Books, stories, workshops.Books, stories, workshops.

    What's the latest?

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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 crime novel won Sisters in Crime's inaugural Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for a crime fiction work-in-progress by a writer of color and is now represented by Lisa Abellera at Kimberly Cameron & Associates.


    I'll be sharing a new speculative short story inspired by the world of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower at the 2023 

    My contemporary crime novel won Sisters in Crime's inaugural Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for a crime fiction work-in-progress by a writer of color and is now represented by Lisa Abellera at Kimberly Cameron & Associates.


    I'll be sharing a new speculative short story inspired by the world of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower at the 2023 Sturgeon Symposium at Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.


    Want to keep in touch?

    Want to keep in touch?

    Want to keep in touch?

    Contact me at maria@mariakelson.com.


    I'd love to share book and story news, plus bits of current enthusiasms, in my email newsletter.


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