About Kelly Fordon

Kelly Fordon has just finished work on her first novel. Prior to writing fiction and poetry, she worked at the NPR member station in Detroit and for National Geographic magazine.  Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review (KRO), Flashquake, Red Wheelbarrow, The Windsor Review and various other journals.  Her poetry chapbook, “On The Street Where We Live,” won the 2011 Standing Rock Chapbook Contest and will be published in February 2012. She received third place in the Katherine Handley Prose Poem Contest, was a finalist in the 38th Annual Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest and received an honorable mention in the 2011 Tiferet Journal fiction contest.  She is currently working towards her MFA in fiction writing at Queens University of Charlotte.