Kelly McKerras earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Memphis, where she was awarded the Moss Fellowship, and went on to spend more than a decade working in the magazine industry, serving on the editorial staff of publications in both the outdoors industry and the science/technology category. Her poetry has appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal, and her short story “How to Get Over a Pilot” was a finalist for the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers. She currently lives outside Louisville, Kentucky, with a very patient husband, two children, two dogs, and more cats than her husband agreed to live with.