Kelly Beard

Kelly J. Beard practiced employment discrimination law in the Atlanta area for two decades and has received many honors for her work, including a certificate of recognition from the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence for her service with he Legal Assistance for Victims Project. In 2016, she earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work appears in the Santa Ana River Review, Bacopa Literary Review, Creative Nonfiction, and Five Points. An Imperfect Rapture is her first full-length memoir.