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Kelly Foster Lundquist

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Born

in Jackson, MS, The United States

Website

https://www.kellyfosterlundquist.com/

Genre

Memoir, Nonfiction, Biography

Influences

Paul Lisicky, Chris Stedman, Nick White, Annie Dillard, Hanif Abdurraq ...more

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Kelly Foster Lundquist is the author of Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage, named by SheReads as a Most Anticipated Memoir of Fall 2025 and now a finalist for the 2026 Minnesota Book Award in Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. Her work can be found in People Magazine, the Times of London, the Huffington Post, and Writer’s Digest, among other places. Originally from Mississippi, she now teaches writing in Minnesota. Dan Savage recently told her on the air that she was “absolutely delightful company” and that Beard was an “incredibly moving tour-de-force” and those are both things she likes to brag about now.

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Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage

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