. M. Kelby

N. M. Kelby

N. M. Kelby is the author of Murder at the Bad Girl’s Bar and Grill (forthcoming Shaye Areheart/ Random House), Whale Season (Shaye Areheart/ Random House), In the Company of Angels (Theia/Hyperion), and Theater of the Stars (Theia/Hyperion). Named “Outstanding Southern Artist” by The Southern Arts Federation, her work has been translated into several languages and she has twice been a Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Award finalist for fiction. Her short stories have appeared in many publications including Zoetrope All-Story Extra, One Story, Minnesota Monthly, Verb, and The Mississippi Review. Her story Jubilation, Florida was recently selected for National Public Radio’s “Selected Shorts”and included in New Stories from the South (Algonquin Books).

She is the recipient of a Bush Artist Fellowship in Literature, the Heekin Group Foundation’s James Fellowship for the Novel, both a Florida and Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship in fiction, two Jerome Travel Study Grants, and a Jewish Arts Endowment Fellowship. She grew up in Florida, where she currently lives and is working on the movie version of Whale Season. Her website is www.nmkelby.com.

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