Kelsey Shipman: expat, ghostwriter, mom

Kelsey Shipman is a 39-year-old writer, mom, former teacher, and ambivalent expat living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, while escaping the heat, politics, and high cost of her home state of Texas. (kelseyshipman.com / @kelseyerinshipman)

Kelsey is the weirdo world traveler from an otherwise conventional Texas family who ended up living in Ghana, Bolivia, the Czech Republic, and Uzbekistan over the course of two decades. Now she’s come to accept that living abroad is key to “doing her life’s work” and raising her young daughter with sanity.

Kelsey mostly works as a ghostwriter, focused on memoirs and cookbooks. Her husband does remote IT work and schoolteaching. Together they work a combined 40-50 hours  ...