Kelly Ramsdell Fineman is an author and award-winning poet whose poetry. Her first chapbook, The Universe Comes Knocking, was released by Maverick Duck Press in 2015. Her poetry for adults has appeared in the anthologies Breaking Waves: An Anthology to Benefit the Gulf Coast, ed. by Tiffany Trent and Phyllis Irene Radford (2010) and in Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales of Appalachia, ed. by Brian J. Hatcher (2010), as well as in journals and magazines including Up & Under, Bits & Scraps, and Penn & Ink.

Her children's poems have appeared in National Geographic's Book of Nature Poetry, National Geographic's Book of Animal Poetry, Dare to Dream . . . Change the World, Highlights for Children magazine, Write Your Own Poetry by Laura Purdie Salas (2008), and Summer Shorts: A Short Story Collection, ed. by Madeline Smoot (2006). Her first picture book, At the Boardwalk, illustrated by Mónica Armiño, was released by Tiger Tales Books in 2012.