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Kelsey Peterson

Kelsey Peterson’s writing has appeared in Conjunctions, Ekstasis, First Things, and West Branch, among others. She received the PEN/Dau Prize for Emerging Writers in 2019. She teaches rhetoric at Clapham School in Wheaton, IL.

Articles by Kelsey Peterson

Writing Is for Humans

They accepted that the law of human judgment was Mercy—after all, that was the law of divine judgment.
September 22, 2025