About M. X. Kelly
M. X. Kelly was born in south-central Ohio and moved to Florida when she was 20.
She published her first stories and poetry in 2010. She loves to write science fiction, fantasy, and horror...sometimes a mixture of all three..blending genres together like a watercolor artist, only with dark, inky, beautiful words. She has published over 20 stories and poems under the name Maria Kelly and M.X, Kelly. See the "Published Works" page for M.X.'s publication history.
She is a recent graduate of the English program at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. At USFSP she was a member of the English Honors Society, Sigma Tau Delta (Alpha Xi Phi chapter) and the Writer's Club, where in the Fall '14 semester she helped to design the cover and contributed a poem to the club's first zine: Judgmental Cats. She became the Treasurer of her Sigma Tau Delta chapter in 2015, and Vice President of The Writer's Club in the same year.
Kelly is also the editor/publisher of speculative fiction e-zine, The Were-Traveler (currently on indefinite hiatus).
She lives in Tampa Bay with her partner Val and their three cats: Bianca, Moyashi Spanks, and Xadie.
She published her first stories and poetry in 2010. She loves to write science fiction, fantasy, and horror...sometimes a mixture of all three..blending genres together like a watercolor artist, only with dark, inky, beautiful words. She has published over 20 stories and poems under the name Maria Kelly and M.X, Kelly. See the "Published Works" page for M.X.'s publication history.
She is a recent graduate of the English program at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. At USFSP she was a member of the English Honors Society, Sigma Tau Delta (Alpha Xi Phi chapter) and the Writer's Club, where in the Fall '14 semester she helped to design the cover and contributed a poem to the club's first zine: Judgmental Cats. She became the Treasurer of her Sigma Tau Delta chapter in 2015, and Vice President of The Writer's Club in the same year.
Kelly is also the editor/publisher of speculative fiction e-zine, The Were-Traveler (currently on indefinite hiatus).
She lives in Tampa Bay with her partner Val and their three cats: Bianca, Moyashi Spanks, and Xadie.
Works in Progress
I always has way too many stories going at once. That's the difficulty of having an overactive imagination; the plot bunnies find it so easy to invade, divide, and conquer. Currently, aside from writing academic things for my university classes, I'm working on the following creative short pieces:
For my graduate school creative piece:
For my graduate school creative piece:
- The Electric and Eclectic Days of Dr. Fountainbrow: a man, a goddess, and several other characters of unbelievable scope.
- The Imaginary Motorbike: a fantasy involving a boy and, of course, a motorbike.
- Waiting for a Ship to Bear Her Away (fantasy/horror)
- Don't Wake the Babies (horror)
- Pariedolia (Horror)
- A Stolen Memento Box (title tentative/dark fantasy)
- Plus some science fiction and fantasy poetry.
