Chelsey Minnis


Chelsey Minnis is an American poet. Her collections of poetry include Zirconia, Bad Bad and Poemland. Zirconia won the 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."