Kelsey Myers

Kelsey Myers is a graduate of Ashland University's undergraduate creative writing program. She expects to be awarded an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University in October 2022. Proudly queer, she lives in Georgia with her fiancee, her stepson, and three cats all named after feminist icons.

I Am In Your Sway

“It’s a malady particular to artists,” Arachne said to her father one day, as he was watching her work.
That morning, he had made her a gift of sea-blue yarn that was said to have been touched by the gods themselves, or, at least, by a demigod, or, at least, by one of the Oceanids; the seller had been vague about the specifics, but assured Idmon that the material was, in some way, divine. It looked divine, different from the yarn that Arachne usually used, which was single-color and made of cotton. This yarn shimmered the way the sea shimmered when the sun shone on its surface: hues of algae green, river blue, and flashes of gold.