Chelsey Clammer
Writer, Editor
Chelsey Clammer is the award-winning author of the essay collections Human Heartbeat Detected (Red Hen Press, 2022; runner-up of the Memoir Magazine Books Prize, 2024), Circadian (Red Hen Press, 2017; winner of the Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award, 2016), and BodyHome (Hopewell Publications, 2015). Her work has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, Brevity, under the gum tree, Another Chicago Magazine, Water~Stone Review, Black Warrior Review, and McSweeney’s, among many others. She was the Fall 2019 Jack Kerouac Writer in Residence with the Jack Kerouac Project. Clammer has taught creative writing at Southwestern University (Georgetown, TX) and is an online creative writing instructor with WOW! Women On Writing. She is currently working on a new collection of essays about the empowering women in her life. She is a full-time freelance editor living in Austin.
