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  <name><![CDATA[N.M. Kelby]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[N.M.Kelby is the author of A Travel Guide for Reckless Hearts, Murder at the Bad Girl’s Bar and Grill, Whale Season, In the Company of Angels, and Theater of the Stars. She is also the author of the craft book, The Constant Art of Being a Writer: The Life, Art &amp; Business of Fiction. Named “Outstanding Southern Artist” by The Southern Arts Federation, her work has been translated into several languages and offered by The Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and Quality Paperback Book Club.

Her short stories have appeared in many publications including One Story, Minnesota Monthly, Verb, and The Mississippi Review. Her story “Jubilation, Florida” was selected for National Public Radio’s “Selected Shorts,” and later recorded by actress Joanne Woodward for the NPR CD Travel Tales, and included in New Stories from the South: Best of 2006 (Algonquin Books). She has been a Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Award finalist for short fiction three times. In 2007, two stories were finalists for Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction.

Kelby is the recipient of a Bush Artist Fellowship in Literature, an NEA Inter-Arts grant, 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 and is working on the movie version of Whale Season along with Actor/Singer/Songwriter Dwight Yoakam. She has been selected to take part in a cultural exchange at Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan, Ireland and will be the Artist-in-Residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute in May 2008

]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Derek Walcott &amp; Carl Hiaasen (mentors)]]></influences>    <hometown>Toledo</hometown>      
  
  
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