Cavenaugh Kelly

he/him

Cavenaugh Kelly, PhD, MS, OTR/L, is a writer, occupational therapist, researcher, and teacher. His short stories and essays have been published in Slice, Harmony Magazine, Pulse, Birmingham Arts Journal, Red Wheel Barrel, Braided Way, The Connecticut Review and other publications. At Husson University, in Bangor, Maine, as an associate professor, Kelly teaches in the School of Occupational Therapy, winning the Theresa W. Steele award for excellence in teaching research in 2022 and the Global Scholar Award in 2025 for his international teaching. He has presented and published his research on the influence of literary narratives on the empathy levels of healthcare students internationally and nationally, winning the Global Empathy Award at the 2022 international Global Empathy Conference where he was a keynote speaker. He has a Doctorate in Transdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in disability narratives from the University of Maine and has training in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University.