RB Kelly

1979–

RB Kelly is a Northern Irish writer, born in 1979 and educated at Methodist College Belfast and Ulster University, where she studied media and completed a PhD in film theory. Her doctoral research became the non-fiction book Mark Antony and Popular Culture (2014). Her short fiction has appeared in magazines including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Aurealis and was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Her debut novel, Edge of Heaven, won the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award; its sequel, On the Brink, followed in 2022. She co-runs CinePunked, which links film fandom with film theory, and lives near Belfast with her family.

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