Kennedy contributes regularly to Library Journal and has work published or forthcoming in The San Francisco Chronicle,The East Bay Monthly, Prairie Schooner, and Kitchen Sink Magazine. She's got a BA in English Literature from Georgetown University and an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College. Amy Hempel called her reviews the best nonfiction she'd seen at Bennington and Sven Birkerts wrote of her work, “When there is attention like this, the game seems worth playing.”