Tori Kelley, Ph.D. is the president and founder of Central Florida Mental Health, where she uses Creative Resilience: Story, Music, Art, Therapy to heal others and herself from childhood trauma. She also holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults. Tori won an SCBWI Rising Kite Award in the Young Adult category and is represented by Joyce Sweeney at The Seymour Agency. An award-winning artist and singer-songwriter, Tori invites you to listen to her album, True to You. Though she grew up in Italy, Tori calls Central Florida home, where she is often found wakeboarding and licking Nutella off a spoon, but not at the same time.
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Building Empathy
Shepherding Your Young Reader into Rocky Picture Book Terrain: How to Use G.O.A.T.S. to Build Reader Connection and Resiliency
By Tori Leigh Kelley
“The reason I write is to explain my life to myself. I’ve also discovered that when I do, I’m explaining other people’s lives to them.” Pat ...
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Show Don’t Tell
Pump up the Interest: Move the Camera
By Tori Leigh Kelley
Many of us prefer to watch cinematic movies over documentaries. One reason may be the varied use of interesting camera angles. The same could be said in writing. If a writer keeps the camera focused on one object, or one character, ...
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