Mandy Kelso is an artist and writer based in the Lower Hudson Valley. Her works incorporate oils, acrylics, encaustics, gold-leaf, and burled wood as she documents the joy and catastrophe of nature through her vivid images. She is an active plein air painter which fuels the color and space captured in her larger studio works.

Her poetry has been published in annotated collections and she has been a guest reader at the REZ Reading Series, Kundiman Asian-American Poetry Readings, and Howland Cultural Center's Women's Art Show. Her book, "Poems for Wyatt," published in 2018, and dedicated to the memory of her firstborn son, has been featured in the Handbook for Perinatal and Neonatal Palliative Care by Limbo, Wool, and Carter. She was a plenary speaker at the Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance's 2022 International Conference, where she spoke on the journey of loss and healing through art and expression.

While Mandy's writing invokes nature as a reference for cycles of healing, her paintings focus on documenting the abundance and profundity of the natural world.