Caitlin Kelly

Caitlin Kelly, a writer in Tarrytown, NY, is the author of “Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail”, a memoir of her 27 months as a sales associate in a suburban New York mall. “A clear-eyed account” (The New York Times), it was nominated for the Sidney Hillman Award, which honors "journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good." Winner of a Canadian National Magazine Award for humor, she has written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, Marie-Claire, Glamour, More, New York, Smithsonian and many others. She has been a freelance contributor to The New York Times since 1990. Her first book is “Blown Away: American Women and Guns” (Pocket Books, 2004). A graduate of the University of Toronto, she blogs at broadsideblog.wordpress.com with 15,000 readers worldwide.