RB Kelly
RB Kelly (born 1979[1]) is a Northern Irish science fiction writer[2][3] from Belfast.[4] Her debut novel Edge of Heaven was a winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair[5] and shortlisted for the 2021 Arthur C Clarke Award[6][7][8][9] and the 2022 European Science Fiction Association Award for Best Written Work of Fiction.[10] The sequel, On The Brink, was longlisted for the BSFA Award for Best Novel.[11][12]
Kelly attended Methodist College Belfast[1] and Ulster University, where she completed a degree in Media Studies and a Ph.D. in film theory.[13] Her non-fiction book, Mark Antony and Popular Culture, was drawn from her doctoral research.[14] From 2020 to 2023, she was a judge, with Lucy Caldwell, of the Mairtín Crawford Award for Short Stories.[15][16]
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]Novels
[edit | edit source]Non-fiction
[edit | edit source]- Mark Antony and Popular Culture: Masculinity and the Construction of an Icon (2014 - as Rachael Kelly)[21][22]
Awards
[edit | edit source]Won
[edit | edit source]- The Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair (2014): Edge of Heaven[5]
- The Orange Northern Woman Short Story Award (2003): Long Anna River[14]
Nominations
[edit | edit source]- The European Science Fiction Society Award - Best Written Work of Fiction (2022) - Edge of Heaven[10]
- The Arthur C Clarke Award (2021) - Edge of Heaven[6][7][8]
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