Education
Bennington College.
Bennington College.
Her first book, Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India, was published by Random House in 2011. Participant memoir, part reported nonfiction, it tells the story of several Indian women as a way of explaining the slow pace of social and cultural change in India. The book was reviewed by The Washington Post, Macleans and Kirkus Reviews among others
Kennedy lived in New Delhi, India for five years, as a reporter covering South Asia for National Public Radio and American Public Media"s Marketplace Radio.
In 2007, Kennedy moved to Washington, District of Columbia, to work as an editor at National Public Radio"s Morning Edition. She holds an Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction from Bennington College in Vermont and a Bachelor degree from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.