Episode 7: Kelsey Calaitges
Home Town: Mechanicsburg, PA Current Town: Los Angeles, CA What are you working on now?: Currently writing for a Netflix series (it's unannounced so apologies for the vague cagey mysteriousness!) and about to start a copywriting gig. It'll be my first time in the advertising space so very excited/nervous to tack on yet another industry in which I get to experience imposter syndrome! Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person: In second grade you got to publish a book (the word "publish" is doing a lot of work there. And also "book"). They were these 10 page-ish hardcover books with an illustration on one side, and on the other side those lined pages with dashes you'd practice cursive on when you first learning. I spent months poring over my story and coming up with this super high-concept snowman factory, JACK FROST meets WESTWORLD, something truly worthy of being forever immortalized in glos