Tina Kelley

Former New York Times reporter Tina Kelley worked on the paper's metro desk for ten years, and belonged to the team that won a Pulitzer Prize in public service for the paper's coverage of the September 11 attacks. She wrote 121 "Portraits of Grief," brief profiles of the victims, which appeared in the book Portraits 9/11/2001. Her first book of non-fiction, about homeless youth and how to keep young people off the streets, co-authored with Kevin M. Ryan, published from Wiley. 

 

Her first book of poetry, The Gospel of Galore, won a 2003 Washington State Book Award and her second poetry collection, Precise, appeared in 2012 from Word Press in Cincinnati. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2009, Southwest Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Journal of the American Medical Association, among other publications. 

 

She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.

For more about Tina and her works, go to http://www.almosthomethebook.com/