Kelly is a designer and artist working for publishers that include Grove Atlantic, W.W. Norton, Penguin Random House, Abrams, Harper Collins, Algonquin Books, Henry Holt & Company, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Counterpoint Press, and A Strange Object.
She designed in-house at Counterpoint Press for 5 years and then moved over to W. W. Norton where she was a Senior Designer for 2 years. She’s currently freelancing.
In 2019, she gave an interview with AIGA talking about her journey to book cover design. In it, she describes the thinking behind using artwork by Lucio Fontana on the memorable, pink cover of Ball: “It looks violent, it looks a little sexual—there’s something a little unsettling about that, and I felt like it sort of perfectly encompassed what the book’s vibe is.”
