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Palm Springs Noir Akashic Books, 2021
Kelly is a contributor to this anthology of crime fiction, appearing alongside authors such as Janet Fitch, Alex Espinoza, and Tod Goldberg.
"Highlights include ... Kelly Shire's "A Cold Girl," in which family relations sour after a stripper takes up with a cousin's boyfriend. [Editor] DeMarco-Barrett has chosen well, and there's not a dud in the bunch." -- Publisher's Weekly
Palm Springs Noir is available online at Bookshop.org, or your favorite online bookseller.

Non-Fiction

Friday Night Mariachis Brevity, January 2020
On The Cult's "Rain," or The Geography of Gothnicity March Vladness, March 2019
Bartender's Blues The Museum of Americana, Issue 16
#64, Sticky Fingers The RS 500, December 2018
The Devil You Know Entropy, October 2018
The Bakersfield Sound Under the Gum Tree, Fall 2018
Guera, Where You Going? Memoir Mixtapes Vol. 5, 2018
The Great Unknown The Coachella Review, 2018
The Streets of Bakersfield Compose Journal, 2017
the Story Behind The Story (craft essay)
Beautiful Music Full Grown People, 2016
Watching the Clock (craft essay) Hippocampus 2016
Hair of the Dog Hippocampus 2016

Fiction

Palm Springs Noir Akashic Books, 2021
Whisperings Angels Flight/Literary West, 2015
A Patch of Weeds New Millennium Writings, 2001

Books

Like Only a Lonely Angel - Essay in Shutdown Strangers and Hot Rod Angels: An Anthology Inspired by the Music of Bruce Springsteen Bone & Ink Press, 2020
I Dream of Department Stores - Essay in SPENT: Examining our Complicated Relationship with Shopping Seal Press, 2014

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