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Matthew Kelsey
Writer & Actor
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About Matthew Kelsey
Originally from Glens Falls, New York, Matthew Kelsey is a poet and actor based in Chicago. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a teaching fellowship from the Kenyon Review Young Writers Program, and an Idyllwild Arts Writers Week Fellowship.
Matthew has appeared in improv and sketch comedy shows at Second City (Chicago) and the Hugo House (Seattle).
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