Ariana Kelly

Ariana Kelly graduated with a BA in Literature from Yale University, and with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She taught English and Creative writing for twelve years at the Harvard-Westlake School, in Los Angeles, and for the past two years at the Middlesex School. She is also a working writer, publishing essays, reviews, poems, and books. She is currently completing a memoir.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2021*

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