K.S. Jellal is a self-proclaimed provocateur from southern California. Eventually she traded one dairyland for another and is now working out of Wisconsin where she writes, dances, and makes a meager living within the confines of a cubicle. While her roots are on the Philippine Islands, her husband grew up in the mountains of northern Morocco — their lives are a meeting ground of different cultures, interests, great food, and big ideas. They currently live under the supervision of two cats, Bear and Jacquelyn, who sometimes allow them to venture out for jazz and cheap wine.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Damazine, The Sheepshead Review, Danse Macabre, and others. Her poem “Conveyer Belts” won The Sheepshead Review’s 2010 Rising Phoenix Award for Poetry. Jellal is finishing her first chapbook, The Unadorned Hunt and Other Limitations, as well as a collection of short stories.