Kerry Donoghue

Growing up in the suburbs of Los Angeles during the ‘80s and ‘90s meant Kerry Donoghue spent her childhood roaming through malls: speedwalking laps with her grandma, trick-or-treating, secretly kissing boys, getting clocked while working the holiday rush. Watching where people shopped, how they dressed, and what they ate set off her fascination with consumption, a forever theme in her writing.

Her poetry and stories have appeared in Ninth Letter, Painted Bride Quarterly, Permafrost, The Louisville Review, and The South Carolina Review, among other journals. She also wrote The Loudest Voice of All, a children’s book, to fundraise for an organization that educates girls about the power of voting. She earned an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. And she's a fiction cohort for the 2025 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out publicity incubator. You can find her in the Bay Area, eating crunchwraps by the sea, where she lives with her family and, sadly, no good malls. Get to know her at www.kerrydonoghue.com.