Alumna spotlight: Kelly鈥檚 creative journey

The cover of Kelly's book with an image of a house and the text 'Kelly Punton. When strange calls you home? A collection of short stories.

Kelly Punton is a writer and an English teacher in the East Midlands. She reads and writes stories, plays, and poetry. She graduated from 天堂视频 in 2013 with a degree in English and Drama. Originally from Lincoln, Kelly now lives with her husband and dog in a small town in Nottinghamshire.

Her short play Ours/Yours was performed and produced across the East Midlands as part of the ‘Behind Closed Doors’ Production with New Perspectives Theatre Company as part of the Emerging Perspectives Programme. Kelly published her first collection of short stories called 'When Strange Calls You Home'. The characters in these stories are all searching for something more – some people are sitting, waiting, wondering when, or even if, their lives are going to change, whilst others are finding mystery in unexpected places. 
 
Kelly enjoys being playful with form and language, and especially enjoys writing in magical realism and speculative fiction genres. She is fascinated by how both the extraordinary and the ordinary are essential to the human experience. 

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