B. A. Kelly

A native of Chicago, author B.A. Kelly has also called Michigan, Arizona, Washington and Hawaii home. Over the last forty years, she has lived throughout California and finally settled on the Central Coast in Northern Santa Barbara County. Bonnie has worked in various arenas such as folding billboard posters, working as a file clerk and waitress, stocking shelves, hairdressing, bartending, as flight coordinator, being a housewife and even working as a certified structural welder in the Boilermaker's Union. She also worked at the Dole Pineapple Cannery for 20 minutes and had the pay stub to prove it. She published and ran a small town newspaper for over five years, and managed to earn an A.S. degree in Library Science.
She became interested in writing after winning first place for writing the best Clean Up Week campaign slogan in the third grade. She also later won in the field of essay writing and took first place in the Santa Barbara County Arts Dept. 2001 contest for the best play written about not smoking.