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Welcome Tod M. Kelly Photographs ...to my website. You can go to My Books page to read excerpts from my books. Here's a little information about me: I was born and raised in Seattle, WA. I first wanted to become a writer in grade school when I started to fill reading log after reading log with the titles of books I loved, like Pippi Longstocking and Nancy Drew. I was a bookworm and most of the time I would rather read than play outside. My mother didn't like it that I read so much, so I kept my dream of becoming a writer a secret. Once I began to publish poems and stories, however, my secret was out! When my youngest daughter left home for college, I decided to return to school and become a librarian. Now, I will always be surrounded by the books I love, whether I'm writing them or introducing books to new readers. I am the author of Killing Color (Calyx Books, 1992), One Dark Body (HarperCollins, 1993), touch (HarperCollins, 1995), Eli and the Swamp Man (HarperCollins, 1996), and the editor of Sisterfire:Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry (HarperCollins, 1994). My fiction and nonfiction have been published in Essence, Ms., Parenting, American Visions, and The Seattle Times, as well as numerous anthologies like When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, The Bluelight Corner, Spooks, Spies,and Private Eyes, Edgewalking on the Western Rim, and In Search of Color Everywhere. I have received grants from the Seattle, King County and Washington State Arts Commissions, as well as Artist Trust. I have received writing awards from Brandeis University Women’s Committee, Great Lakes Colleges Association, Washington Governor’s Award, and was shortlisted by Granta magazine as one of the best American novelists under forty for One Dark Body. I also write books for young readers.  "Unable to accept his stepfather, Eli vows to bike his way to Alaska, where his father has lived for the past three years. An enlightening meeting with a homeless man who camps out in the nearby swamp helps him face reality, and he heads back home ready to make a fresh start. Well-executed drawings accompany this simple but affecting story." --Horn Book Guide My next title is a story for young adults - The Flight of the Pearl: A Conversation on American Slavery in Documents. |
Selected WorksFiction
Killing Color
Stories that explore the nuances of history, race, sex,and class. Novel
touch
Rayna Sargent is a thirty-five-year-old painter who falls in love with Theodore, a handsome, Renaissance man, shortly before she receives the diagnosis that she is HIV positive. One Dark Body
Set in Pearl, WA., this novel is the story of reconcilation between Raisin, a twelve-year-old girl abandoned at birth and Nola, the woman who left her behind. It is also the story of fourteen-year-old Sin-Sin who is initiated into the rituals of manhood, by Blue, the town's healer. |
