On the Street Where We Live

Rock In the River Literary Series

The Standing Rock Cultural Arts Rock in the River Literary Series is the literary sector that launched July 2010 with a mission to promote literary arts in our general area and to promote local and national poets with publication.

Our newest author and winner of the 2011 SRCA Second Open Poetry Chapbook Competition is Kelly Fordon of Michigan whose chapbook entitled On the Street Where We Live arrives February 2012. The series is currently edited by Tina Puckett.

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$2 of every purchase will be donated to the Sylvan Beach Foundation, which is run by my cousin Sean Smeeton. Sylvan Beach Foundation http://sylvanbeachfoundation.org/  ))   

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ABOUT OUR CURRENT WINNING AUTHOR

Kelly Fordon has recently finished work on her first novel. Prior to writing fiction and poetry, Kelly worked at the NPR member station in Detroit and for National Geographic magazine.

Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review (KRO), Flashquake, The Windsor Review, and various other journals. She is the recipient of several scholarships and awards including third place honors in the SF Pen Kathryn Handley Prose Poem Contest and as a finalist in the 38th Annual Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest.

Kelly also has ties to Standing Rock’s home. She completed her B.A. at Kenyon College and her M.S. in Communications at Ohio University. She is the daughter of the late Bill Stanton, who served as congressman for the district encompassing Kent from 1965-1983.

She is currently working towards her MFA in fiction writing at Queens University and lives in Michigan with her husband and children. Her website is www.kellyfordon.com.