Chelsie Keller has lived most of her life in rural Ohio where she has always been surrounded by cornfields, but she’s really not much of a country girl. However, she’s not much of a city girl, either. The cornfields and a fair amount of teachers and mentors who exposed her to the fine arts have somehow off-set one another. While a good deal of Chelsie’s time is dedicated to reading and writing, she also loves to spend time with her husband, their two adult children, and the four-legged fur-children who seem to have claimed the house as their own. Chelsie only wishes that they would at least help pay the mortgage or mow the lawn.
Having started her family at a relatively young age, Chelsie entered college as a “non-traditional” student and earned her BA in English from Bowling Green State University in 2011 and her MA in English and Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University in 2018. She will additionally be completing her MFA in Creative writing from SNHU in the very near future.
Aside from her own writing, Chelsie spends her time teaching young college students writing skills at Northwest State Community College. She has been honored to be able to return in a faculty role to the same school where she took her own first college classes. Chelsie considers working with other writers and discussing language, writing, and storytelling important to her writing and continued education.
Chelsie never put pen to paper with the intent of writing Contemporary Literary Fiction, Women’s Literature, or any other genre. Her original purpose was only to write compelling and relatable stories that opened the door for discourse on a variety of topics. Chelsie’s studies have often been interdisciplinary with emphasis on literature and literary theory as well as American popular culture, sociology, and psychology. All of these interests inform and inspire her writing. Still, Chelsie has found that nothing inspires her writing more than living life as a woman.
With this, Chelsie aims to create fiction that inspires other women to examine their lives and viewpoints on a critical level while at the same time telling riveting stories that keeps readers engaged with compelling and relatable characters as they encounter realistic yet often dramatic situations. Chelsie’s hope is to use fiction as a way to entertain readers while at the same time contributing to the discourse surrounding what it means to be “woman.”
Chelsie Keller 