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KELLY GREY CARLISLE is a graduate student at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln. Her essays have appeared in River Teeth, Tampa Review, and
Subtropics. Two of these essays were selected as notable essays in Best American Essays 2006 and one was reprinted in The Touchstone Anthology of
Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, edited by Michael Martone and Lex Williford. She has won an AWP Intro Journal Award, a Susan Atefat Peckham Fellowship, and a
fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Recently she won second place in nonfiction in the 2008-2009 Atlantic Monthly Student Writing
Contest.
Carlisle is the former managing editor of Prairie Schooner, the national literary magazine based at UNL, and currently serves as one of the magazine’s
Senior Readers. She has given several presentations on writing and publishing to classes and community groups in and around Lincoln, and has presented at national
conferences such as Nonfiction Now, the Western Lit Association, and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
Carlisle is currently at work on a book-length memoir about the murder of her mother, her childhood with her grandfather — the larger-than-life owner of an
adult video store — and their home on board an 85-foot boat in the Los Angeles Harbor. She realizes that this sounds like the plot summary of yet another
fake memoir, but she promises that, although it is another memoir, it isn’t fake. She’ll be glad to show you photos and documentation, should you be interested
enough to drive to Lincoln.
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