LJ Kessels (she/her) is a multilingual writer based in Berlin. She has worked in film festivals and literary events across Europe and now writes alongside a corporate day job. Her work has appeared in Stadtsprachen Magazin, OF ZOOS, South Dakota Review, and in a forthcoming anthology, Berlin Babel, published by V&Q Books.
Selected work
Averaged Handling Time
V&Q Books, 2026
NonfictionFlash
We Lived in Medium
South Dakota Review, 2023
FictionShort Story
Champagne Days
Paragraph Planet, 2022
FictionMicro
Popcorn and Coke
OF ZOOS, 2022
FictionShort Story
Mondays
Goat’s Milk Magazine, 2021
FictionShort Story
Knitted Pizza
The Daily Drunk, 2021
FictionFlash
False Mountain
elsewhere, 2021
NonfictionEssay
The Guinea Pig Situation - stadtsprachen
stadtsprachen, 2021
FictionShort Story
1991
Bull + Cross, 2017
FictionFlash
LUFTMENSCHEN
DAWG Review, 2014
FictionShort Story