“As a Teaching Artist, I invite people to engage with words in new and unexpected ways on the path toward creating poems that resonate with their own voice and experience.”
Kelly Nelson is a member of the 2016 AZ Creative Aging Teaching Artist Institute cohort.
Kelly Nelson is a poet and teacher based in Tempe.
She is the author of two chapbooks, Who Was I to Say I Was Alive and Rivers I Don’t Live By, winner of the 2013 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Series Award.
Her poetry has appeared in more than 40 literary journals and she has performed her poems at coffee shops, book stores, galleries, diners, farmers markets, the Houston Poetry Festival, the Phoenix Art Museum and on the Phoenix Light Rail.
She holds an M.S. in Adult Education and teaches poetry classes through ASU’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She serves as a judge for Tempe’s Community Writing Contest, volunteers as a gallery docent at the Tempe Center for the Arts and serves on her city’s arts and culture commission.
Kelly received a 2014 Artist Research and Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts in support of her first full-length collection: a lyric, found biography of her uncle based on his 500-page prison record.
Nelson is a Senior Lecturer at Arizona State University where she’s been teaching Interdisciplinary Studies since 1999.
Website: www.kelly-nelson.com
Photo by Carrie Meyer
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