About Kelly

Editor, Coach, Writer:

I have been editing and writing professionally for 25 years. My past clients include:
• nonfiction authors (celebrity, memoir, mental health, how-to, inspirational, spiritual)
• fiction authors (historical, coming of age, middle grade)
• nonprofits & businesses (CDF Capital, Overthink Group, Velocity Pro Systems, Visioneering Studios)
• publications (Christianity Today, Faithfully Magazine, Christian Standard)

From 2014-2017 I was Senior Editor of The Lookout, a weekly faith-based magazine by Christian Standard Media. This followed my decade as Editor of Encounter—The Magazine, along with editing books and curriculum at Standard Publishing.

Lead Pastor:

Since January 2020, I have been shepherding Echo Church as Lead Pastor. Begun in 2005, the church is located by Eden Park near downtown Cincinnati. We are a group of authentic and caring people who desire to connect with Jesus, with one another, and with our city. Now I write—and edit my own words!—on a weekly basis, creating messages from studying God’s Word. It’s a humbling process.

Personal:

I have an incredible husband and an amazing daughter, and we have a blast together. My hobbies are eating & sleeping (I take those seriously!), reading, running, hiking, traveling, singing, watching sports, and enjoying any media with good writing—from musicals to Liane Moriarty novels to TV shows created by Michael Schur to Marvel movies. I’ve also enjoyed the opportunity to do some background acting work for a few movies filmed in Cincinnati.

Bonus—my passion for words:

In childhood, my nose was always in a book. I mentally narrated each day as if I were the main character in a novel. The words I took in spilled out on paper. I sat at my grandpa's desk at his county clerk office with my feet dangling two feet above the floor and wrote a poem about a pen. I sought just the right words for family birthday cards. When others enjoyed the words I put together, a spark was lit. Years later, as I discovered the ability to help people make their own words stronger, the flame was fanned.