Mary Kelly
reader, writer, omniscient feminine being
art by @kalinaish
about
mary kelly (she/her) is an aotearoa-born writer and editor currently residing on the unceded ancestral territories of the musqueam, squamish, and tsleil-waututh nationsMary is the poetry and prose editor for sad magazine and assistant editor for onlypoems. her work has been nominated for best of the net, and longlisted for pulp literature's kingfisher poetry prize. Mary's writing is featured and forthcoming in journals and magazines across aotearoa-new zealand, Canada, and the united states
work
- 2026 "What is hope but some nasally embarrassment?" - Poetry aotearoa yearbook (forthcoming)
- 2026 "A Study in Red" - Maisonneuve (Forthcoming)
- 2025 "We Regret to Inform You That Your Coverage for a Trip to the Sea Has Been Denied" - League of Canadian Poets
- 2025 "Strollology: The Bipedal Art of Letting Go" - sad magazine online
- 2025 "Omori's Law" - The bangalore review
- 2025 "Wisdom, teeth; things you can find on my bedside table" - SAD magazine Issue 37
- 2025 "I am a mother's daughter" - Canadian Literature Journal issue 257
- 2024 "living in the fridge" - Serviette Magazine Issue 5
- 2024 "Which poetry collection are you according to your star sign" - onlypoems
- 2024 "Funeral attire" and "forgotten world highway" - Emerge 24 Anthology
- 2024 "Creation Story" - The Kingfisher magazine Issue 5
- 2024 "Last night I dreamt I quit my job" - Starling Magazine Issue 18
- 2024 "I left aotearoa and didn't find myself" - Ensemble magazine
- 2024 "Home Run" - sapp zine issue 1
- 2024 "Doctor Who as a queer love poem" - Rat World Issue 7
- 2023 "A skyline slaughtered" - takahē magazine issue 109
- 2023 "Woman with the fig tattoo" - sad magazine issue 35
- 2023 "Let me show you all my trinkets" and 2 other poems - Yolk literary
- 2022 "my body as a conversation starter" - vallum magazine issue 19:1
- 2021 "i would make heaven my bitch" - flexible press 22 under 22 anthology
- 2018 "3:44am" - poetry aotearoa yearbook 2018
Education
2025 - master of fine arts in creative writing
university of british columbia2023 - 2024 The writer's studio
Simon Fraser university2019 - 2023 Bachelor of Arts
University of British Columbia2023 - Copywriting certificate
university of british columbia
Residencies
June 2025
woodland farm artist residency
salt spring island, bcNovember 2024
leña artist residency
galiano island, bcOctober 2024
Digital Writing Residency
The seventh wave