Kelly Harris-DeBerry is the author of the poetry collection Freedom Knows My Name. Her work has been featured in publications including 400 Years: The Story of Black People in Poems Written from Love 1619–2019 (Third World Press), I Am New Orleans (University of New Orleans Press), Southern Literature Review, Words Beats & Life: The Global Journal of Hip Hop, and many more. She recently served as Poets & Writers literary coordinator for New Orleans.