Author: M. A. Kelly

M. A. Kelly is a British author and activist living outside Windhoek, Namibia. An English-language editor of technical and scientific materials focusing on conservation, natural-resources management, and health, from 2017 to 2020 she also contributed a bi-monthly column to The Namibian. Her fiction appeared regularly in The Kalahari Review from 2017 to 2019 and more recently in the online journals African Writer, Ibua Publishing, and Writers Space Africa. Her short-story collection A Bed On Bricks was published by Modjaji Books in 2022. She has won the Phoenix Short Fiction for Children Competition and the Goethe-Institut Namibia Short Story Prize. In 2023, she won the joint second prize in the National Arts Council of Namibia’s Creative Writing Competition for short stories. She is the founder of Sew Good Namibia, a community project assisting impoverished craftswomen to derive an income from upcycling donated furnishing fabric. She also initiated a ‘little library’ pilot project in Windhoek to give members of the public access to books they can borrow for free in their communities.