Ep132: Kelcey Ervick
Graphic Memoir The Keeper, Soccer, Title IX

Kelcey Ervick was a goalkeeper for nationally ranked soccer teams as a girl and a D1 player in college. These days, she is an author, artist, mother, and professor of creative writing at Indiana University in South Bend. Her latest book is the graphic memoir, The Keeper. Kelcey has written three award-winning books of fiction and nonfiction — The Bitter Life Of Božena Němcová, Liliane's Balcony, and For Sale By Owner. She is co-editor, with Tom Hart, of The Field Guide To Graphic Literature, forthcoming from Rose Metal Press in 2023. Her stories, essays, and comics have appeared in The Rumpus, The Believer, Lit Hub, Colorado Review, Passages North, Quarterly West, Booth, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. She has received grants from the Indiana Arts Commission, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and New Frontiers in Arts and Humanities at Indiana University. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati.  

Kelcey’s new book, due out in September 2022, is a graphic memoir, called The Keeper. It i about her time as a soccer goalie along with so much more surrounding that -- including Title IX, Women’s sport history, friendship, growing up, and art.

Kelcey on Instagram, Twitter
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The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer, by Caitlin Murray
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50 year ban on women’s football (soccer)
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