Kelly Kathleen Ferguson

Kelly Kathleen Ferguson is the author of My Life as Laura: How I Searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself (Press 53, 2011). Her work has appeared in mental_floss magazine, Poets & Writers, The Gettysburg Review (for which she received a Pushcart nomination), McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Brevity, among other publications. She has an MFA from the University of Montana, and is in pursuit of a PhD in creative nonfiction at Ohio University.

Kelly is a Libra, Cancer rising, Aquarian moon. She is Irish/French/German, lapsed Roman Catholic, and right-brained. Kelly once received a minority scholarship for a machinist certification program at Durham Technical Community College. When Kelly was four, she ate a moth ball and had to have her stomach pumped, or she would have died.

Author photograph by Louise O’Rourke

Interviews:

• Author Feast, with Luke Affaby
• Prairie Home Companion with Jessica Salerno
• Beyond Little House with Sandra Hume
• With Clifford Garstang on Perpetual Folly
• All Things Girl with Melissa A. Bartell
• The Post with Bridget Mallon
• WOUB, Ohio NPR with Taylor Pool
• The Write Question, Montana NPR, with Chérie Newman

My Life as Laura Reviews

• Los Angeles Review, Issue No. 12, Fall 2012,  by Ann Beman
• New Pages by Cheryl Wright-Watkins
• Sideways: Her Last Costume by Claire Guyton
• Reviewed by Cheryl C. Malandrinos at Laura’s Little Houses
• A Tale of Three Lauras at Biblioteca
• Small Press Reviews by Meghan Piercy
• Reviewed by Eleanor Inge in the Mobile Press Register