Alfreada Brown-Kelly

Alfreada Brown-Kelly: Biography

Alfreada Brown-Kelly is an author of poetry and an Assistant Professor at Hampton University. Alfreada is a native of Thibodaux, Louisiana and she lived in New Orleans, Louisiana for ten years. Alfreada has been writing poetry for years and has started on a children’s collection called the Victoria E. Kelly Series. Alfreada is a graduate of Nicholls State University and Old Dominion University. She received her M. A. in Sociology with a concentration in Criminal Justice from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She is an avid reader who enjoys reading poetry, biographies and Christian and contemporary fiction. Transformation of The Mind, Body & Soul is her first book. Her second book of poetry is The Skin I Am In. Her third book, Why Women Weep is an anthology, was released in April of 2011. Other books include My Thoughts and Prayers (poetry), I Have To Pray (a prayer journal) and Men Cry Too (an anthology). Alfreada’s poetry has been featured annually in Ancestral Rites, a poetry anthology published by BookClubEtc, Praise Magazine, Hampton Roads My Time magazine, (September 2010 and January 2009) and The New Journal & Guide magazine. Alfreada is currently working on research about women in prison, African American women intimate relationships) and self-esteem issues young girls encounter.