A small town, American playwright raised in Alabama, New Mexico and West Texas, Kelly’s aesthetic view is a fusion of Southern Appalachian and Southwest U.S. culture, and heavily influenced by the literary genres of Magical Realism, Romanticism and Gothicism. She is the author of the Southern Gothic crime noir, "To Tread Among Serpents" (Off-Off Broadway production, Winner of the Southern Playwrights Competition, O'Neill Semi-finalist) and the dark comedy western, "The Hall of Final Ruin" (Stage Raw Los Angeles Playwriting Award, Renaissance Theaterworks Brink! Award, Great Plains Theatre Conference Finalist, Two-time Princess Grace Semi-finalist, BAPF Semi-finalist). Other full length plays include "A Poison Squad of Whispering Women" (BAPF Finalist); "Second Death of a Mad Wife"; and "The Resurrection of the Publick Universal Friend". Short plays include "El Loro, El Gato Y El Espíritu Santo (or The Parrot, the Cat, and the Holy Ghost)" (published by YouthPLAYS); "The Show Must NOT Go On!" (Cambridge University Press Finalist), "Two Yards of Satan", "Sock Puppet Fetish Noir", "The Garden Path to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions", "Suicide Hotline" as well as several others. Her plays have been developed or produced from New York to LA, Chicago to Chile. Notable theaters include HB Playwrights Theatre (Off-Off Broadway), Ophelia’s Jump Productions (CA), The Barter Theatre (VA), NyLon Fusion (NYC), Renaissance Theaterworks (Milwaukee), Something Marvelous (Chicago), The Bechdel Group (NYC), Teatro Vivo, (Austin), and Jacksonville State University (AL). Kelly has a degree in Theatre Arts and an English Literature minor from the University of New Mexico. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and an emeritus member of the Ithaca Shakespeare Company (Ithaca, NY). Kelly makes her home in the small farming village of Peralta, NM.