
Kaleigh O'Keefe
they/them | Poet, journalist and editor | Boston, MA, United States
Kaleigh O’Keefe is a gender outlaw and community organizer whose poetry has appeared in Breaking the Chains Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, Button Poetry, In Between Spaces: an Anthology of Disabled Writers (Stillhouse Press), won the PRIDE Poetry Prize in Passengers Journal, and is featured on indie music legend Ceschi’s album Sans Soleil. Kaleigh is a contributor and editor for Liberation News, co-founder of Game Over Books, co-organizer of the Liberation Open Mic at the Boston Liberation Center.
Selected work
IN BETWEEN SPACES - Anthology of Disabled Poets and Writers
Stillhouse Press, 2022
DIAGNOSTIC LAPAROSCOPY — Santa Fe Writers Project
SFWP Journal [Santa Fe Writers Project], 2022
DIAGNOSES AND MISDIAGNOSES (alphabetical, incomplete) — Santa Fe Writers Project
SFWP Journal [Santa Fe Writers Project], 2022
I had another dream where the roof caved in.
Moist Poetry Journal, 2021
Pelvic Physical Therapy
Moist Poetry Journal, 2021
Golden Shovel for Hamnet
Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art
Golden Shovel for Destiny
Golden Shovel for Desire
Correspondence
Where Do Memories Go To Die?
"The Doctor Says My Uterus is Heart Shaped"
Button Poetry, 2023
"Autobiography of Joan of Arc"
Father's Day, June 20th, 2021