Kelly Spitzer

Kelly Spitzer lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Binnacle, Redivider, Cream City Review, Hobart (web), elimae, 3:AM Magazine, Vestal Review, and other publications. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination, and an editor with the flash fiction publication SmokeLong Quarterly. Visit her at her website.

Kelly says: In Had a Dad, my first story to appear here in Tom's Voice, I introduced a young adolescent named Justin. The ending of that story was, as I was told, disturbing. And since I tend to spend an unnatural amount of time worrying about people with addiction issues (fictional characters included), I couldn't leave Justin without at least a glint of hope that he'd overcome the inevitable I left him to face. So, here's to hope.