 She has been a Pirate's Alley Faulkner Award finalist for fiction three times and placed twice in the Nelson Algren Award for the Short Story.Kelby took part in a month-long cultural exchange at Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan, Ireland and will be the Artist-in-Residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute in May 2008.Kelby is working on the movie version of "Whale Season" along with actor/singer/songwriter Dwight Yoakam.