Carolyn Kelly
(she/her) Mentor
Carolyn Kelly is an assistant editor at Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster. Her forthcoming books include 100,000 First Bosses by Will Haskell and Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher. A native Chicagoan and lifelong Cubs fan, Carolyn moved to New York after graduating from Princeton University summa cum laude with a degree in English. Her favorite subject in high school was Creative Writing. She forgets most of the math she studied, but she can recite 17 digits of pi from memory after winning a contest in fifth grade. Her first job was soda jerk at a historic museum’s ice cream parlor.