Kelly Fordon’s latest short story collection  I Have the Answer (Wayne State University Press, 2020) was chosen as a Midwest Book Award Finalist and an Eric Hoffer Finalist. Her 2016 Michigan Notable Book, Garden for the Blind, (WSUP), was an INDIEFAB Finalist, a Midwest Book Award Finalist, Eric Hoffer Finalist, and an IPPY Awards Bronze Medalist. Her first full-length poetry collection, Goodbye Toothless House, (Kattywompus Press, 2019) was an Eyelands International Prize Finalist and an Eric Hoffer Finalist and was adapted into a play, written by Robin Martin, which was published in The Kenyon Review Online.  She is the author of three award-winning poetry chapbooks and has received a Best of the Net Award and Pushcart Prize nominations in three different genres. She teaches at Springfed Arts and The InsideOut Literary Arts Project in Detroit, as well as online, where she also runs a podcast called "Let's Deconstruct a Story." www.kellyfordon.com

Website: www.kellyfordon.com

Twitter Username: @kfor24

Publications

• I Have the Answer , Wayne State University Press (April 11, 2020)
• Garden for the Blind , Wayne State University Press (April 1, 2015)
• Goodbye Toothless House , Kattywompus Press (January 11, 2019)

Employment

• Writer-in-Residence at Inside Out Literary Arts Detroit (January 2013 - December 2015)
• Podcaster at Let's Deconstruct a Story (February 2021 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Queens University of Charlotte (May 2013)
• Master of Science in Communications from Ohio University (May 1997)
• Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Kenyon College (May 1989)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry