![]() ![]() ![]() I now have more time to write now that interpreting is my only “day job.” I still fill out paperwork every day, but this time it’s to fill pages with stories. ![]() I’ve always loved reading, but it was during those teaching years I fell in love with children’s literature all over again and became interested in writing, so there’s nothing about that I’d change. Plus, it turns out teachers have to wake up really early. I loved the students, and teaching, but didn’t love the paperwork. My favorite thing to do was read great books with great kids. I’ve been much warmer since 1996, when I made it back to Texas.įor a few years I was also a special education teacher. After graduating from college in East Texas, I lived in windier and colder places, like Kansas and Minnesota. I was born in Galesburg, Illinois, and grew up in Houston, Texas. I still learn something new every day, and my work has taken me everywhere from classrooms to hospitals to Alaskan cruises. Since Kelly is a sign-language interpreter you might assume her goal was to capture the experience of a Deaf character, but you would be wrong. ![]() I’ve worked as a sign language interpreter ever since then. Lynne Kelly’s middle-grade novel, Song for a Whale, grew organically.The main character, Iris, is a 12-year-old Deaf girl who feels isolated from her school and family. In college I majored in psychology, but after taking some sign language courses, I decided that was a field I wanted to stick with. I found both of those fields in a roundabout way. I live in the Houston, Texas area where I work as a sign language interpreter and write books for kids. ![]()
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