Kelsey McKinney is a New York Times and USA TODAY best-selling reporter and writer who lives in Philadelphia.
She is a co-owner and staff writer at Defector.com where she co-created the hit podcast Normal Gossip.
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Her first non-fiction book You Didn’t Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip was published in 2025.
Her first novel, God Spare The Girls, was published in the summer of 2021.
She is working on something secret now.
And taking only very stupid and fun freelance assignments
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