Chelsey Minnis (born 1970 in Dallas, Texas) is an American poet. Her collections of poetry include Zirconia, Bad Bad, Poemland, and Baby I Don't Care. Zirconia won the 2001 Alberta Prize for Poetry.2001 Alberta Prize for Poetry She received a B. A. in English from the University of Colorado Boulder and studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Minnis's work was described as expressing a "gurlesque" aesthetic by Arielle Greenberg, which she described as "a feminine, feminist incorporating of the grotesque and cruel with the spangled and dreamy."Arielle Greenberg, "Some Notes on the Origin of the (Term) Gurlesque," Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics, ed. Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg, Saturnalia Books, 2010, p. 2
Selected works Zirconia. New York: Fence Books, 2001. Foxina. Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books, 2002. Bad Bad. New York: Fence Books, 2007. Poemland. Seattle: Wave Books, 2009. Baby, I Don't Care. Seattle: Wave Books, 2018. Opera Fever. Seattle: Wave Books, 2026.
References
External links Boston Review, Jan/Feb 2009; Review of Bad Bad Small Press Distribution; author page for 'Poemland Wave Books author page