Mary Kennedy is a national best-selling novelist and a licensed psychologist on the east coast. She has written 37 young adult novels and has a new adult mystery series with Penguin, The Talk Radio Mysteries.The first title, DEATH IS BAD KARMA was released in January 2010, and the second release, REEL MURDER, is available now. She has spoken at over 100 schools, libraries and writers' conferences all over the country. She received a grant and award for "artistic excellence in fiction" from the Delaware Division of the Arts. Please visit her online at http://www.marykennedy.net. And be sure to visit Killer Characters--it's a fun site where cozy mystery writers blog as their characters! www.killercharacters.com
Her broadcasting career started in 1978 when, as a 23 year-old secondary school teacher, she applied for a job as continuity announcer in RT.
She taught English in Brittany, France before returning to teach at her old alma mater, Colaiste Bride in Clondalkin, Dublin.
She graduated from University College Dublin with a BA honours degree in Irish and French and a Higher Diploma in Education.
