Venessa Vida Kelley is a Washington, DC-based writer, illustrator and sequential artist. Her work focuses on magical realism, fantasy, and romance in a culturally diverse world, and has been featured in Discovery Girls Magazine, Buzzfeed, and in board games and activism campaigns for Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, creator of the La Borinqueña comic series. She holds a BA and MA in English Literature with concentrations in film from the University of Delaware and George Washington University.​​ You can find her at VenessaKelley.com.