Kelly Puig is a Cuban-American writer and interdisciplinary artist. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brown University’s Literary Arts Program where she was the recipient of the Weston Prize for best graduate manuscript in addition to the Frances Mason Harris Prize for best manuscript of poetry or prose fiction written by a woman. While at Brown, she pursued interdisciplinary coursework in book arts at Rhode Island School of Design.
Kelly’s cross-genre debut, The Book of Embers, was selected by Amaranth Borsuk for the 2022 Essay Press Book Prize and is available from Essay Press. Excerpts from the book have appeared in A Mouth Holds Many Things by Fonograf Editions, Hyena by HEXENTEXTE and as a photo-documentary project in Tupelo Quarterly. Kelly’s poetry and fiction have been published in Denver Quarterly, Witness, The Columbia Review, and elsewhere.
As Creative Director, Kelly co-founded Literati, a VC-backed book club platform. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Her unofficial bio may be more telling as a conduit of truth.
