About

Kerry is a narrative nonfiction writer from the midwest and west coast, currently living in Atlanta.

She was selected for Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s Book Project 2023-2025 and was the recipient of a research grant from Mary Kole’s Good Story Company. She graduated summa cum laude in English from UMN-Twin Cities.

Other awards include:

Miami Book Fair Emerging Writers’ Fellowship 2024 (Honorable Mention)
Vermont Studio Center offer of Residency 2024
Granum Foundation Fellowship 2022, 2024 (longlisted)
Sunspot Literary First Pages Prize 2022 (longlisted)
Headlands Center for the Arts AIR 2022 (finalist)
Errata/Err Artist Collective: Featured Artist 2015
Richard J. Margolis Award 2013 (finalist)

Kerry is working on her first book, Come Get Him Zero.