About me

Kelly is a writer of prose and plays in a variety of genres. As a child, she was notorious for the elaborate stories she crafted for her dolls. She’s known she wanted to be a writer since she attended the fifth grade career fair dressed as a novelist. The best hours of her life are spent in quiet spaces listening to audiobooks or shaping her own stories.

In high school, Kelly served a year as the News Editor for the Patriot Post before venturing out of journalism and into more imaginative fields. She received a National Gold Medal from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in 2020 for her one act play, The Lovely Lucy. 

Her collegiate experiences include serving on the Editorial Board and as the Managing Editor of Calliope Art & Literary Magazine and as the Secretary of Sigma Tau Delta. This spring, she will also be starting as a Sophomore Editor of Voces Novae, an academic history journal.

After contracting Covid-19 in 2020, Kelly began suffering from post-Covid complications that forced her to be bedridden with severe light sensitivity for eight months. While her symptoms still evade a clear diagnosis, subsequent treatment has allowed her to function with more regularity. She has written several short stories about her illness to spread awareness and reach out to fellow members of the community who are struggling with similar burdens. She is hard at work on an urban fantasy novel that aims at combining her experiences with her expansive imagination.