About
Kelly Dwyer's third novel, GHOST MOTHER, will be published by Union Square & Co. in 2024. Kelly is the author of two other novels, as well as flash fictions and plays, which have been produced in New York, Boston, and Glasgow. She grew up in San Pedro, California, was educated at Oberlin College and The Iowa Writers' Workshop, and divides her time between Madison, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles.
Featured Work
GHOST MOTHER
Lilly Bly is struggling with infertility issues when her husband, Jack, gets a new job that moves them from Chicago to the small town of Haven, Wisconsin. After Lilly falls in love with the decrepit Lawrence mansion, where she’s sure she’ll finally become a mother, Jack reluctantly agrees to buy the expensive wreck. But when Lilly learns that her dream house was the site of a gruesome triple homicide/suicide in the 1950s, she begins to experience strange occurrences that lead her to believe the house is haunted. Are her ghostly encounters real, or is this a cascading mental breakdown? As Lilly learns more about the deaths and her visions become increasingly vivid, her relationship with Jack deteriorates, leading to a dramatic and irreversible climax.
