Bill Kelly

Bill Kelly has been a college English instructor, soccer coach, athletics and admissions liaison, athletics recruiter, and summer camp director over the past 25 years. A graduate of Macalester College, he majored in English and went on to earn his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota, where he won an Academy of American Poets prize. His poems have appeared in numerous poetry journals, and in 2015 his book of poems, Water Tiger, was published by David Robert Books. He has published children’s stories in Cricket magazine, Highlights for Children, Scouting magazine, and others. He is also a painter; his work has been shown and sold in Minneapolis, Albany, and Boston.