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Kelly Sundberg

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Essay collection THE ANSWER IS IN THE WOUND forthcoming from Roxane Gay Books in August 2025.

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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 07/12/2025
Yes, please!
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Annmarie Kelly @annmariekelly.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
It was an honor to speak with @kellysundberg.bsky.social about THE ANSWER IS IN THE WOUND, published by @roxanegay.bsky.social books. As Kelly’s written, there is room inside us for more than one story. Here's to containing multitudes, folks. Pick up your copy at @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social
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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 15/10/2025
“Because it can’t be forced, I let the rituals bring the writing to me. All I have to do is make the space for it,” writes @kellysundberg.bsky.social, author of The Answer Is in the Wound (Roxane Gay Books). Read more: at.pw.org/WRSundberg
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 09/10/2025
Jenny, thank you so much!
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BOMB Magazine @bombmag.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
THE ANSWER IS IN THE WOUND author Kelly Sundberg discussed writing from trauma in an interview with writer @marisaemily.bsky.social “If there’s anything I want people to take from this book, it’s that you don’t have to be afraid of pain.” —Kelly Sundberg tinyurl.com/4s2vahmf
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BOMB Magazine | Kelly Sundberg by Marisa Siegel
An essay collection that plays with structure to capture the visceral experience of PTSD on the page.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I have a book imprint & this week a new title is out, an essay collection about living with PTSD and moving forward from trauma but it’s also about being young, misadventure, motherhood and opening up to love again. The Answer Is in the Wound by Kelly Sundberg, out now: bookshop.org/a/112057/978...
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The Answer Is in the Wound
Check out The Answer Is in the Wound - <p><b>"Lyrical and brutal, intimate and culturally relevant. I've never read anything like it."--Maggie Smith</b></p><p><b>An intimate, linked, lyrical essay col...
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 29/08/2025
Thank you, Ella!
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
@kellysundberg.bsky.social recommends titles to read for your new life by Saeed Jones, River Selby, and more!
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Five Books With Narrators Learning to Live in Unexpected Lives
There is a cognitive dissonance that survivors of gender violence like myself live with; it is the dissonance of living in a world where we feel both completely normal and alien at the same time. I…
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Marisa Siegel @marisaemily.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Kelly Sundberg’s tremendous THE ANSWER IS IN THE WOUND is out today from Roxane Gay Books — at BOMB, we dive in to how she built this groundbreaking essay collection! 📚❤️‍🔥 @kellysundberg.bsky.social @roxanegay.bsky.social @groveatlantic.bsky.social @bombmag.bsky.social
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BOMB Magazine | Kelly Sundberg by Marisa Siegel
An essay collection that plays with structure to capture the visceral experience of PTSD on the page.
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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
"In writing these essays, I wanted the permission to withhold. This collection is so personal. PTSD is so personal. So, the gaps are deliberate. They allow me the opportunity to decide when to share which details." @kellysundberg.bsky.social
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BOMB Magazine | Kelly Sundberg by Marisa Siegel
An essay collection that plays with structure to capture the visceral experience of PTSD on the page.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 25/08/2025
The Answer is in the Wound comes out tomorrow! If you’re near Columbus, please come and see @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and me at Two Dollar Radio HQ. Maggie and I always laugh a lot, and I can’t wait to have this conversation with her!
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BOOK RELEASE: Kelly Sundberg's The Answer is in the Wound
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 22/07/2025
I will be on a brief book tour with my favorites, @roxanegay.bsky.social, @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, @smashfizzle.bsky.social, and @meganstielstra.bsky.social when my memoir-in-essays, The Answer is in the Wound comes out on August 26th from. Please share and join us! ♥️
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 31/03/2025
When I started cleaning my house before going on trips so it would be clean when I got back.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 23/03/2025
Something I really enjoy is when my husband is struggling with some kind of technology, and I get to say, "Did you try unplugging it and plugging it in again?"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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Andrea Hoag @andreahoag.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Cannot WAIT!😘
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 05/03/2025
Thank you so much!
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 04/03/2025
Preorder here or anwyhere that you buy books: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Answer Is in the Wound
Check out The Answer Is in the Wound - <p><b>An intimate, linked, lyrical essay collection focusing on the longer-lasting effects of trauma and PTSD on survivors--challenging a culture in which violen...
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 04/03/2025
I'm so excited to announce that my essay collection, THE ANSWER IS IN THE WOUND, will be released by Roxane Gay Books, an imprint of @groveatlantic.bsky.social on August 26th. It was such an honor to be edited by @roxanegay.bsky.social, and I hope you love this book as much as she does.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
For my first @spitfirenews.com piece, I investigated the tactics used to make stories and information disappear on social media platforms like Reddit. This piece is about Blake Lively, but it’s also about how to manipulate the masses about anything. spitfirenews.com/p/the-blake-...
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The Blake Lively story that isn't being told
It’s easy to manipulate what people see on social media—or don’t.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 25/02/2025
His deputy seemed embarrassed. He stopped and told me how well I'd done, and that he felt like he'd learned a lot, then hurried after the sheriff. I remember saying to my bf (now spouse), who had traveled there with me, "Wow, that sheriff was really mad. He's probably a domestic abuser himself." 3/3
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 25/02/2025
I had been unaware that law enforcement had been invited to the event (though I should have guessed). After the event was over, Sheriff Noriss stood up from the table, slammed his chair in, made a dismissive motion towards me with his hand, and stormed away. 2/
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 25/02/2025
A while back, I gave the keynote address at a fundraiser for a domestic violence organization in Coeur D'Alene. I was seated at a table with Sheriff Noriss. My speech was about the failure of the police response in West Virginia when my ex-husband had been arrested for domestic battery. 1/
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Chaos erupts at legislative town hall in Coeur d'Alene
Saturday’s Legislative Town Hall hosted by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee turned volatile as some attendees voiced their concerns over House Bill 138 and other recent legislative ini...
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 13/02/2025
I'm on episode 2, and I like it, but the soundtrack is absurd. They play what should be background music at full volume. And yes, it's kind of cheesy--maybe a lot cheesy--but it's compelling, and it feels eerily prescient. Also, Sterling K. Brown is always such a good actor.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 13/02/2025
Happy Birthday to my BFF, @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social! She’s the funniest person I know, the best dressed in any room, wicked loyal to those she loves, and she’s not just a good writer; she’s a good person too. I don’t have a sister, but Maggie is as close as I could get. 🧡
Two friends smiling in a swimming pool.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 13/02/2025
Thank you!!!
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 13/02/2025
The way he walked in them. That is how bootcut jeans were meant to be worn.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 13/02/2025
File Under: Stuff My Husband Says to His Very ADHD and Very Woo-woo Wife. "You need to put your crystal outside for the full moon. I had a note in my phone to remind you."
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 09/02/2025
(And it's forest fire central over there, so that's another huge concern for the community too.)
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 09/02/2025
I grew up in rural Idaho because my father worked for the US Forest Service. People in my town resented the federal employees, but the USFS is also the largest employer in the county, and I don't know how that very MAGA community will survive if the USFS gets shut down or significantly reduced.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 13/01/2025
It has such a beautiful balance of action, suspense, and character development. It's an example of masterful screenwriting.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 13/01/2025
Rich and I just rewatched Severance s1, and towards the end of the season, we couldn't stop and stayed up until 3am finishing it, even though we'd already seen it before. That show is so addicting. There aren't many shows that I can binge twice.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 07/01/2025
I texted a friend that, at my job, I hardly had any time to write, so I finished my book while I was on FMLA from my hysterectomy. I wrote "lol" at the end of my sentence. She said "Lord, I'm so sorry. What a horrible thing." That was when it hit me that maybe that wasn't an "lol" kind of message.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 16/12/2024
I’ve had crunchy knees since high school. I call them my “Capricorn knees” because Capricorn is supposed to be the ruler of the knees.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 07/12/2024
Oh no! Eve, I’m so sorry.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 04/12/2024
Your ability to laugh with people (and not at them) is my very favorite quality of yours.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 04/12/2024
🧡🧡🧡🧡
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 04/12/2024
You will be one of THE FIRST to get an advance copy because I love you so. 🧡
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 04/12/2024
I’m finishing the copy edit for my second book, and I told @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social that copy editors are magic. She used to be a copy editor, and she loved it, but I said, “I’m not a copy editor. I NEED a copy editor.” She said, “I respect that.” She was also definitely laughing at me.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 02/12/2024
Sometimes I get clothing ads in my feed, and I think it's something really cute, then click on the link before realizing that those overalls with mushrooms embroidered on the front, are, in fact, for 5-year-olds.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 29/11/2024
I received an advance copy of this book, and it’s so down-to-earth, accessible, craft-focused in practical ways, and inspiring. Kind of like Maggie herself!
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 21/11/2024
I really loved doing this interview with @literarymama.bsky.social. I hope you’ll give it a listen.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 14/11/2024
I did this last year with my son and my partner, and I had to be dragged into the viewing experience, but then I had so much fun.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 13/11/2024
Oh, I’m so sorry to hear this! I completely understand, but Columbus will miss you. I’m glad we had a happy hour before you left.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 30/09/2023
(Also, I’ve been here for months, but this is my first post on Bluesky.)
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 30/09/2023
My bf had his wisdom teeth out on Tuesday, and today my mom sent him a message via iCloud? (Idk what that is.) The message said that she hoped he felt better. Anyway, my mom and I have the same initials, so he thought it was me and wrote back “Love you 😘.” They barely know each other.
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Kelly Sundberg @handle.invalid · 08/07/2023
Ooh, I’ve only watched 15 minutes of the latest episode but will have thoughts soon!
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