the Spiral key forthcoming
from viking, penguin random house in 2026

Text: Kelsey Day's The Spiral Key, the author's debut, a speculative horror in which a queer teen girl receives an invitation to her ex-best friend's birthday - an exclusive overnight virtual reality party that secures everyone's social status each here - but as the party games begin, it becomes clear the birthday girl has sinister and deadly intentions, to Jenny Bak at Viking Children's, at auction, for publication in spring 2026, by Chelsea Eberly at Greenhouse Literary Agency, on behalf of Dovetail Fiction/Working Partners and Laura Southern at Wolf Literary Services (NA).
Translation/UK: [email protected]

Previous works

​ROOTLINES

"A stunning ode to a landscape the author knows intimately." 
-Kirkus Review
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Kelsey Day’s sophomore poetry book, rootlines, is a visceral collection about hope during the apocalypse. It blurs the lines between the human and non-human world, colonial perceptions of “nature,” and pays testimony to the Appalachian mountains that have long been abused by the fossil fuel industry. Both literary and accessible, this is a collection about place, risk, and grief – about the roots we grow from and the branches we reach with.
 
These are poems grounded in place; it is therefore essential to recognize that southern Appalachia as we know it today was built on stolen land. Donate to the Indigenous Environmental Network here. All pre-ordered copies will be distributed directly by me, not through Wilde Press, and all the profits will go directly to the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Publication Date: April 21st, 2021
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Price: $8

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the last four years 

kelsey day's debut poetry book is a chronicle of four transformative years. it is a vivid song to self, a collection of lethal moments accompanied by the quirky illustrations of lily young-fritchie. 
 
it has four chapters: 
 
growing backwards 
[poems of unwellness] 
 
him 
[poems of love] 
 
me 
[poems of discovery] 
 
growing forwards 
[poems of healing] 

​Publication Date: May 21st, 2018

Price: $18

​Where to Get It: Foggy Pine Book Store, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or directly through the author.​        

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