Kelly R. Samuels

Poet

Author's Bio

Kelly R. Samuels is the author of two poetry collections and five chapbooks—the most recent Oblivescence, a finalist for the Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award (Red Sweater Press, 2024), and The Sailing Place (Bottlecap Press, 2026.) She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee with poetry appearing in Denver Quarterly, Laurel Review, and The Glacier, and prose at McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cleaver and Five on the Fifth. 

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The Sailing Place (Bottlecap Press, 2026)
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Oblivescence (Red Sweater Press, 2024)
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Talking to Alice (Whittle Micro-Press, 2023)
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To Marie Antoinette, from (Dancing Girl Press, Chicago, 2023)
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All the Time in the World (Kelsay Books, 2021)
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Words Some of Us Rarely Use (Unsolicited Press, 2019)
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Zeena / Zenobia Speaks (Finishing Line Press, 2019)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Francesca Abbate, Allison Adair, Kaveh Akbar, Marie-Helene Bertino, Jennifer Chang, Katie Ford, Aracelis Girmay, Michele Glazer, A.L. Kennedy, Patricia Lockwood, Ali Smith, Claire Wahmanholm, Keith S. Wilson.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
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Last update: Jan 22, 2026