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Author Biography and Bibliography
After graduating from Notre Dame in 1972, Jim Kelly joined the staff of C.E. Maguire, Inc., Architects, Engineers and Planners of Waltham, Massachusetts, as a proposal writer. He later worked for the company as Coordinator of Public Relations. In the course of his career in business, he wrote more articles for professional, technical, and trade publications than he cares to remember. Mr. Kelly attended the Clarion Writers' Workshop in 1974 and again in 1976. Clarion is a summer workshop sponsored by Michigan State University for writers of science fiction and fantasy. He published his first story in 1975. In 1977 he resigned from full-time employment at C. E. Maguire to pursue a writing career, although he continued as a part-time consultant to the firm until 1979. Mr. Kelly has had an eclectic writing career. He has written novels, short stories, essays, reviews, poetry, audioplays and planetarium shows. His books include Strange but not a Stranger, Think Like A Dinosaur and Other Stories, Wildlife, Heroines, Look Into The Sun, Freedom Beach (in collaboration with John Kessel) and Planet of Whispers. Although primarily known for his science fiction, his work also includes mainstream, fantasy, and horror. He has won the World Science Fiction Society's Hugo award twice and has been a finalist for both the Hugo and Nebula. His short stories have appeared in numerous "Best of the Year" collections over the past twenty-three years. His work has been reprinted in France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Finland, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Thailand, Croatia, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the Czech Republic. He has also written five audioplays that have been produced by Scifi.com's Seeing Ear Theater. In 1998, his regular column on the Internet debuted in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. He has been invited to read his fiction at First Night New Hampshire in Concord, New Hampshire, First Night Portsmouth and the Prescott Park Arts Festival in Portsmouth, New Hampshure. In October 1992, his planetarium show, "Destiny or Discovery," premiered at the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium in Concord, New Hampshire. In 1986, Mr. Kelly became involved in the Arts in Education program, funded by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. As part of this program he has taught writing in more than forty schools throughout New Hampshire to students from grades 3-12. He has also taught courses on writing for the Division of Continuing Education at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, at the Writers' Forum at the State University of New York at Brockport, New York and the Imagination Writers Conference at Cleveland State College in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1990, he was asked to teach at the Clarion Writers' Workshop at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, which he had previously attended as a student. He has returned to teach Clarion six times and is a member of the Clarion Board of Directors. Mr. Kelly has participated in a variety of community activities in New Hampshire. In 1978, he co-founded the Source Food Co-op in Nashua and in 1979 served as treasurer. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Durham Infant Center from 1981-83 and served as Chairman in 1983. He was also a member of the Board of Directors for the Newmarket/Exeter Child Care Centers from 1984-86 and served as Assistant Chairman in 1986. From 1992-1995 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Writers' Project; he edited its magazine, Ex Libris, from 1994-95. In 1998, Governor Jeanne Shaheen appointed him to serve as one of fourteen councilors on the State Arts Council. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the New England Foundation for the Arts.
Jim Kelly was born in Mineola, New York in 1951. He has been a resident of New Hampshire since 1975. He currently lives in Nottingham, New Hampshire with his wife, Pamela D. Kelly. He has too many hobbies.
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