Kelsey McKinney is a reporter and writer who lives in Philadelphia. She is a co-owner and staff writer at Defector.com. She is the host and co-creator of the podcast Normal Gossip. Her first novel, God Spare The Girls, was published in the summer of 2021 and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, and GQ Magazine, among others.