Healing looks a lot like living.

Kelsey D. Mahaffey is a certified listener poet with The Good Listening Project. Poetry pulled her from a dark corner, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. Her work can be seen in: Pinch, SWING Magazine, Deep South Magazine, Rat's Ass Review, The Miserere Review, Arkansas Review, Pensive: A Global Journal for Spirituality & the Arts, The Sunlight Press, Halfway Down the Stairs, Cumberland River Review, Writers Resist, Eunoia Review, Soul Forte, and The Keeping Room at Minerva Rising Press. Her debut chapbook, No Fault of Water, was a semi-finalist for the 2024 New Women’s Voices chapbook competition from Finishing Line Press. She and her family live in Nashville, TN, with the ghost of a bow-legged cat. When she’s not writing, you can find her barefoot on the back trails of her favorite park. ​

​Where to Find me: Events and Interviews

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AWP 2026 - Friday, 1-2 p.m. No Fault of Water book signing at booth 428, Baltimore, MD
​Featured reader for the Pinch Journal Fall 2025 Release Party - Saturday, September 26, 7 p.m. at Novel Bookstore, Memphis, TN

Writing in the Wild - Friday, May 8, 10 a.m. at Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, Nashville, TN 

Writing in the Wild - Friday, April 10, 10 a.m. at Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, Nashville, TN

Writing in the Wild - Friday, March 13, 10 a.m. at Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, Nashville, TN

Writing in the Wild - Friday, February 13, 10 a.m. at Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, Nashville, TN

Writing in the Wild - Friday, January 9, 10 a.m. at Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, Nashville, TN

​Writing in the Wild - Friday, December 12, 10 a.m. at Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, Nashville, TN

Writing in the Wild - Friday, November 14, 10 a.m. at Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, Nashville, TN

Writing in the Wild - Friday, October 10, 10 a.m. at Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, Nashville, TN
 
Writing in the Wild - Friday, September 12, 10 a.m. at Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, Nashville, TN

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