Kelly Sterns

Alum 2004

Kelly Sterns is a nationally award-winning poet and teacher with a passionate interest in trailer park culture. Her previous work includes My Home Has Wheels, an oral history and essay project with mobile home dwellers in her Albuquerque New Mexico community and in trailer parks across the nation. At the Mesa Refuge, Kelly wrote Talking Trash (Trailer Trash), about environmentally-focused materials geared toward the nation’s 20 million trailer park residents on issues such as recycling water use and local environmental action.