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Kelsey McKinney

Kelsey McKinney
Kelsey McKinney is a freelance features writer and cofounder of Defector Media. She previously worked as a staff writer at Vox, Fusion, and Deadspin. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Cosmopolitan, and New York Magazine, among other publications. Raised Evangelical in north Texas, she now lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and dog. God Spare the Girls is her first novel.


How Writing a Novel About the Evangelical Church Helped Me Grieve the Loss of My Religion

Kelsey McKinney on the Complex Feelings of Leaving the Faith
June 23, 2021  By Kelsey McKinney
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