Kelsey Castaneda (they/she) is a queer writer and author of RAM (Damaged Goods Press, 2018). They completed an MFA at the University of Notre Dame and currently live in Germany with their partner and three cats.
Isobel O’Hare, Founding Editor and Executive Director of Dream Pop Press on RAM:
“I became so immersed in Ram’s story that I began not only to feel empathy for the character but to feel that I was the character, such is the transformative power of Castañeda’s writing. Who wouldn’t want to be the force behind the statement, ‘I’m woman / I plough men / I steel love‘ and ‘if heaven exists then it is a field of orgasms?‘ This is not only a violent reclaiming of woman’s sexuality but a forging of non-binary desire, the wailing of ‘a body girled then ungirled.‘ The language revealed by Castañeda’s erasures is brimming with ‘love and black art,‘ and it is no wonder that ‘THE CHORUS asks / Didn’t she burn up her / menfolk?’ She most certainly did, and we are all here to bear witness. Even the men are in awe.”
Kelsey Castañeda 