I WAS SIX WHEN THE FIRST ASTRONAUTS LANDED ON THE MOON.

With my grandfather in 1969

On July 20, 1969, my grandfather told stories of hearing about the Wright brothers as a child and Charles Lindbergh as a young man.
“What things we have seen in our lives!” he said to my grandmother. 
I remember the look of wonder on my grandfather's face--and the stories he told that day--much more vividly than what was on TV. 
His remark sparked my professional journey in storytelling.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• I live in Bryan-College Station, Texas, and have clients around the world.
• Over the years, I have written for three presidents of Texas A&M University and three chancellors of The Texas A&M University System. 
• Other jobs include being the senior editor at academic institutions and two state agencies.
• I earned a B.A. in English from Hendrix College (ranked the top up-and-coming liberal arts college by U.S. News & World Report in recent years), and an M.Ed. and Ph.D. in higher education administration from Texas A&M.

The day I got my Ph.D.--seems like yesterday!

AWARDS & HONORS

• I was only the second person to receive both the Dissertation of the Year Award and T. M. Stinnett Award for Scholarly Achievement for my doctoral work.
• I participated in Leadership Texas (now Leadership Women), a year-long program for 100 women leaders.
• I was awarded an Administrative Fulbright Grant to study higher education in Japan.
• My work for clients has received awards from CASE, the International Association of Business Communicators, and Public Relations Society of America.
• My fiction won the top prize in the 2012 Writers' Police Academy Golden Donut short story contest, was a finalist for the Bill Crider Prize for Short Fiction at the 2019 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, and received an honorable mention in the 2020 Flash Fiction Contest by Spider Road Press.

THE REST

At Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park

• Personality-wise, I'm an oddball: an INTJ, the rarest of the 16 Myers-Briggs personality categories. What that means for you is that I'm good at brainstorming and thinking up big ideas, as well as tackling tedious, detail-oriented tasks. I believe in speaking frankly and definitely am not a drama queen.

• ​My husband, Michael Kellett, is a photographer and videographer who (among other things) is hard at work restoring a 1956 Oldsmobile that sat in a field outside Kerrville, Texas, for more than 40 years. 
• When we're not working, we're doting on our rescue kitties or traveling, preferably on Michael's motorcycle in the Hill Country or Big Bend regions of Texas, or the mountains of Arkansas.

Member:

former co-coordinator of the Houston chapter

Writers' League of Texas

Houston

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