Chelsey graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Irvine, and completed a single subject teaching credential at California State University, Long Beach. She was an in-house magazine editor for nearly two decades. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Coachella Review, Brevity, and more. She is committed to the writing and editing process, having spent several years in writing workshops and working one-on-one with published authors to complete and edit a memoir.

Chelsey loves to collaborate with other writers and now specializes in developmental editing and copyediting novels, memoirs, essay collections, and other nonfiction.