Joe Kelley

Joe Kelley is a native of Boston, although in his youth he was dragged around to a number of states by his peripatetic parents, who assured him that this constant movement would build character. Instead, it created a longing for roots, for community, for belonging to a place he could call home. Luckily, he was able to visit his birthplace once or twice a year and after finishing high school, followed by a year of loading trucks in New Jersey, he returned to New England to attend Boston College.

Mr. Kelley went on to teach English and history to high school students for 34 years and now spends his retirement writing, reading, and roaming through the urban neighborhoods of Cambridge and Boston as well as the seacoast towns of the North Shore and CapeAnn.