Ann Kathryn Kelly, an award-winning content marketing writer for technology companies, is a memoirist and essayist living in New Hampshire’s Seacoast region. She’s an editor with Barren Magazine and a columnist with WOW! Women on Writing which promotes communication between women writers, authors, editors, agents, publishers, and readers. 

Ann’s piece “Outlasting Angie: Forty Years With My Bleeding Brain Tumor” was a finalist for the Sandra Carpenter Prize for Creative Nonfiction and longlisted for the First Pages Prize. Her essays, poems, and flash prose have been published in dozens of literary journals, and she has been accepted into writing residencies around the world. Ann leads writing workshops through a nonprofit for people living with brain injury. 

Ann loves traveling to far-flung destinations and has crossed the Sahara Desert’s dunes on a camel, trotted into the Arctic Circle with a reindeer sled, floated in the Dead Sea, traversed parts of India and Thailand on an elephant, and clung to rope bridges that swung over gorges in the Amazon Rainforest, among many other awe-inspiring trips.