Kent Shell is a memoirist, fiction writer and artist.

His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hidden Peak Review, Spotlong Review, LitBreak, Jimson Weed, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, MoMA PS1, White Columns, Artforum and other places. He was born in Altus, Oklahoma, and has a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

He lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York and in the Hudson Valley, where he lives with his beloved co-conspirator. He has a grown daughter, and two grown stepdaughters.