N. M. Kelby, author of Whale Season (Random House/ Shaye Areheart imprint/ forthcoming), In the Company of Angels (Theia/Hyperion, 2001), and Theater of the Stars (Theia/Hyperion, 2003), spent more than 20 years as a print and television journalist before she began writing novels. She is the recipient of a Bush Artist Fellowship in Literature, the Heekin Group Foundation’s James Fellowship for the Novel, both a Florida and Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship in fiction, two Jerome Travel Study Grants, and a Jewish Arts Endowment Fellowship. 

Click on the link below to read a sample of Nicole's work:

The Faithful, by Nicole Kelby (pdf)

Related links:
www.nmkelby.com