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NICOLE KELLY

I’m into cultural criticism,
reality dating shows,
Plutonian transits,
Black Weirdoism &
laughing through the pain.

My fiction has appeared in ZZYZZVA, Fiction Southeast, Best Small Fictions, and some now defunct lit mags (r.i.p.). I got an MFA from the Programs In Writing at UC Irvine after writing a book about slutty girls who like to travel. I was a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow

 

For several years I was the programming director at a feminist art space in LA, where I edited Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication for Co-Conspirator Press and learned a lot about consensus decision making.

 

I produced and hosted bitchface, an experimental audio series, with Phoebe Unter. bitchface produced the 2020 season of The Heart -- named one of the best podcasts of the year by Atlantic magazine & called “a shockingly intimate portrait of what it means to be alive in a human body” in the NYT.  

 

I produced some stories for VICE’s Source Material. I was the senior producer of Black Mountain Radio, a community & artist driven radio program (and a Believer magazine collab). I was a story editor on the award winning first season of the Zim-Australian audio drama Private Affairs, and was a contributing story editor for Transmitter Media. I was a 2022 AIR Edit Mode Fellow

 

I currently work as a story editor on The Anti Trans Hate Machine and as a researcher/development producer for The Mash Up Americans

SAY HI

ttys!

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