Ivory Kelly

Ivory Kelly is the author of Point of Order: Poetry and Prose and Pengereng, a groundbreaking collection of short stories in English and standard Belize Kriol, her mother tongue. Her works also appear in journals and anthologies in the Caribbean, the UK, the US, Mexico, Brazil, and Belize. In 2018 she was the winner of the Copal Distillery Fellowship at the Belize Writers’ Conference, and in 2017 the third and second place winner of the Belize Literary Prize in the poetry and fiction categories respectively. She currently teaches in the Languages and Literature Department at the University of Belize and is a founding member of the Belizean Writers Guild.