Kelli Jo Ford
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Kelli Jo Ford
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Crooked Hallelujah (Grove Atlantic). Cherokee Nation>TX>Virginia. Cherokee. she/her. Hiatusing over here now.

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You have two more days to submit to Chapter House Journal’s Indigenous Fiction Prize and have the brilliant Debra Magpie Earling read your work!!

+General Submissions pool open for poetry, visual art, fiction and nonfiction!!

Submissions close June 30th.

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Plz share!
June 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I’ve reached the reading poems and weeping over breakfast phase of this concussion. It’s beautiful.

“You will find me, God,
like a dumb pigeon's beak, I am
pecking
every which way at astonishment.”

from “A Cigarette,” Ilya Kaminsky
January 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Met some talented student writers who also happened to be stellar humans. (Forgot to take pics.) Read from the novel-in-progress. Saw some friends. Remembered the power of stories, felt grateful to share this creative life with so many good people. Thank you, U of Arkansas MFA program. 💜
November 15, 2024 at 8:24 PM
(Are you kidding me?)
November 9, 2024 at 7:32 PM
He’s got a whole-ass love seat. And yet. (Today’s Version)
November 9, 2024 at 7:30 PM
He’s got a whole-ass loveseat. And yet.
November 8, 2024 at 10:43 PM
You can come write with me and these amazing folks in February. You can do it from your couch in your pjs even. Deadline to apply Sept. 23!
tinhouse.com/workshop/
September 19, 2024 at 2:26 PM
It’s always the quiet ones you gotta watch out for.
September 17, 2024 at 6:39 PM
just a lady and her spring bass
March 25, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Did this day before yesterday. Felt like I needed new shocks.
September 27, 2023 at 5:04 PM
Left the hound dog in Virginia. First run in awhile. Shitty (elevation + so windy I thought I might blow back home) but somehow also so good. Take that, dearly beloved uterus.
September 23, 2023 at 6:53 PM
my allergies have been on overdrive (so many negative COVID tests🙏🏼) so no runs for awhile but I will run again. In the meantime, a hike.
September 21, 2023 at 7:04 PM
In case it was also all you could think abt: a delicious nicoise salad, which I googled how to say and spell
September 21, 2023 at 6:43 PM
If crying your mask wet when the plane takes off is cool, then I’m Miles Davis.
September 18, 2023 at 7:44 PM
I skipped two days and didn’t want to do this. Slower bc this one was a hilly trail run. Feeling kind of proud I did it anyway.
September 13, 2023 at 2:54 PM
I *think* this is what I actually did. Way less triumphant but a run when I didn’t feel like it nonetheless!
September 9, 2023 at 4:35 PM
I made my running interval longer but ran slower and look what happened.
September 9, 2023 at 1:38 PM
not gonna lie, this one reminded me why I’m having that surgery.
September 7, 2023 at 1:45 PM
Deleting the tweets TweetDelete missed and having some feelings. We used to make things on that app.
September 6, 2023 at 10:10 PM
oops I did it again
September 5, 2023 at 1:44 PM
I’m having a hysterectomy in one month & a week. My body has been on some real bullshit for a while & I kind of gave in to not doing much with it. So I’m gonna use this little account to write down an intention. I want to start a running habit again. Starting small, but today, I did it. 1.64 miles.
September 3, 2023 at 7:51 PM
Anyway this is Doc, imploring me to stick to sports.
August 17, 2023 at 2:49 PM
repost with a banger pic of you
July 26, 2023 at 2:11 AM
Sometimes Mom sends me things from Amazon without note or explanation.
May 11, 2023 at 3:02 PM