Colleen Kelly

Colleen Kelly has been on a single track to romance writing since she read her first Jane Austen and her first Jude Devereaux within weeks of each other at the age of twelve. Along the way she spent a year at a British boarding school, earned a PhD in Victorian literature, wrote and edited for a romance reviews magazine, and taught many kids to write academic essays.

She lives not-too-far from NYC with her criminally cute husband, three kids, and dog (adjective applied to all the aforementioned).

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