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Collin Kelley
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"Atlanta native Collin Kelley is an award-winning poet, playwright and journalist. He is the author of After the Poison (2008, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press), Slow To Burn, Better To Travel and a spoken word album, HalfLife Crisis. He is the recipient of a Georgia Author of the Year Award and a nominee for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Lambda Literary Award and the Pushcart Prize. Kelley’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals and in the critically acclaimed anthologies, Red Light: Superheroes, Sluts & Saints and We Don’t Stop Here. He is also co-editor of the award-winning Java Monkey Speaks Anthology series. His play, The Dark Horse, was the recipient of the 1994 Deep South Festival of Writer's Award for Best Play and the 1997 Georgia Theatre Conference Award for Best Play. For more information, visit http://www.collinkelley.com." -- Saints & Sinners
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  • HalfLife Crisis (2004)
    1 ...and says Yes featuring Denton Perry 2 Better To Travel featuring Christeen Snell 3 Answering Machine 4 Battersea 5 Diners at 2 A.M. 6 Exhibit 1 featuring Christeen Snell 7 Short Time 8 Sex In My Parents' House 9 HalfLife Crisis 10 Los Angeles 11 The Clarity of Loss 12 What Remains 13 Funky 1 (Part 1) featuring Denton Perry 14 What I Want To Be Pam Grier (Live at the Ugly Mug) 15 ...and says Yes (Reprise) featuring Denton Perry 16 Bonus Track

Fiction
  • Conquering Venus (August 5, 2009 release)
    In the summer of 1995, young American writer Martin Paige agrees to chaperone a group of high school seniors on their graduation trip to Paris as a favor to his best friend, teacher Diane Jacobs. Diane hopes Europe will act as a catalyst to lift Martin from his grief following the suicide of his lover, Peter. But the trip proves to be more than either of them bargained for. Martin finds himself falling in love with one of her students, David McLaren, who is unprepared to cope with his burgeoning sexuality. He also meets a mysterious Parisian woman, Irène Laureaux, who is debilitated by agoraphobia and spends her days spying on the hotel guests across from her apartment. Martin and Irène discover they have a logic-defying connection: a small tribal tattoo on their left hands that means equal but opposite. This is same tattoo that Martin s lover and Irène s husband had inked into their skin. All the characters lives are irrevocably changed in a horrifying terrorist attack on a Paris metro station. Liberated by the blast, forced from her own self-imprisonment, Irène learns her husband s death was not an accident, and dares Martin to acknowledge the role he played in Peter s suicide. Diane, harboring her own secrets and a hidden agenda, takes a drastic step to force David out of the closet and admit his feelings for Martin. From America to England to France, the globe-hopping story places fictional characters amidst historical events such as the Nazi occupation of Paris, the student/worker riots of 1968 and the terrorist bombings of Paris in 1995. Grounded in reality, Conquering Venus is a mystery, a love story and a journey of self-realization.

 

Poetry
  • After the Poison (2008)

  • Slow to Burn (2006)
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  • Better to Travel: Selected Poems (2003)
    Collin Kelley’s debut, Better To Travel, is a haunting cycle of poetry dispatched from the teeming streets of London and New York to the decadence of Paris and New Orleans. From these far-flung outposts, Kelley deftly and unblinkingly conveys the end of a relationship and the need to escape to “sights unseen.” Readers have compared Kelley’s poetry to the emotional work of Anne Sexton and Sharon Olds. This is confessional poetry in its truest form: raw, uninhibited and unflinching.

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