Author

Kelley Benham French

@KelleyBFrench

Kelley Benham French teaches journalism at The Media School at Indiana University. She previously worked as a reporter and editor at the Tampa Bay Times. She was a 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her series "Never Let Go," about the birth of her extremely premature daughter. The series went on to become a book, "Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon," co-authored with her husband, journalist Tom French.

A young journalist is inspired by fickle spring weather (and an old newspaper story)

A young journalist is inspired by fickle spring weather (and an old newspaper story)

How a 300-word assignment, and a quick read of Ken Fuson's "What a Day!" from 1995, was channeled into a nonfiction prose poem