AUTHOR

Kelly Grey Carlisle

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After her mother's unsolved murder, Kelly Grey Carlisle was raised on a boat in the LA Harbor by her grandfather, an ersatz Hollywood scriptwriter and a genuine dealer of pornography. In her twenties and thirties, she went on a quest to learn more about her mother's life and death, a journey that took her to the LAPD's Cold Case Homicide Department, family she never knew, and a motel room long ago. Her essays appear in Salon, The Sun, New England Review, and Ploughshares, among others, and have been shortlisted for Best American Essays. She teaches creative nonfiction at Trinity University in San Antonio, where she lives a mostly normal life with her husband and children.