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Carol Kelly has extensive experience as an editor and staff writer at top news organizations, including The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Newsday and Gannett. She was part of the editing team that helped the Journal win a Pulitzer Prize for its 9/11 coverage. In 2014, her profile of a deaf high-school basketball player won a New York Association of Black Journalists award for best feature story.
Kelly has edited stories for several anthologies of personal essays written by and for teenagers. She contributed her own stories to Venturing in Italy: Travels in Puglia, Land between Two Seas, a book of travel essays. An avid traveler, Kelly has joined a group of international travel writers on trips to southern Italy and Greece. She considers Italy one of her places of the heart – along with Jamaica, where she was born.
A summa cum laude graduate of Hunter College, Kelly also attended Baruch College and is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is a firm believer in public education and calls herself a product of City University of New York. Kelly joined the board of the New York Association of Black Journalists asdissertation writing services Parliamentarian in January 2016.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Twitter: @cjkel
