Collin Kelley

Festival Appearances:

• Please: Poetry , Saturday, 3:00 at Eddie's Attic Stage
• Cool Limbo, Sunday, 1:15 at Eddie's Attic Stage
• Collin Kelley , Sunday, 5:30 at Local Poetry Stage

Collin Kelley is the author of the novels Conquering Venus and the forthcoming Remain in Light, both from Vanilla Heart Publishing. His poetry collections include Better to Travel, After the Poison and Slow to Burn, which has just been reissued by Seven Kitchens Press. His poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in literary journals around the world. He is a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of the 2007 Georgia Author of the Year Taran Memorial Award. For more information, visit collinkelley.com.

Conquering Venus, 2009

In the summer of 1995, young American writer Martin Paige has a fateful meeting with Parisian widow, Irène Laureux. They share the same tattoo and are haunted by the mysterious deaths of their partners. As they set out to solve the riddle of their unlikely connection, a terrorist attack on the Paris metro reveals secrets and lies that have been simmering for thirty years.