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Canadian author (born 1977)

Kelly Oxford
Born (1977-11-29) November 29, 1977 (age 47)
Canada
Occupation(s)Writer, director
Children3

Kelly Oxford is a Canadian author, director, and screenwriter.

Career

In 1996, Oxford dropped out of Mount Royal University after one semester. She started blogging as a means of daily productivity and self-publishing. She later worked as a waitress and at a shoe store.

In 2001, Oxford became a full-time stay-at-home mother and began focusing on an anonymous blog. She joined Twitter in 2009, and gained a large following, eventually attracting the attention of celebrities, including Diablo Cody and Roger Ebert, and being contacted by a number of agents. She sold a television script to CBS, to be executive produced by Jessica Alba, based on her life as a mother in Calgary. She then wrote another pilot that was bought by NBC. Neither script has been produced. Oxford moved to Los Angeles in 2012.

In 2013, Oxford published a semi-autobiographical book, Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar, which became a New York Times bestseller. She appeared on the reality show Candidly Nicole, starring Nicole Richie. Additionally Oxford and Molly McNearney, head writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, developed a semi-autobiographical comedy for TV Land in early 2016 that did not air.

On April 18, 2017, Oxford released her second book, When You Find Out the World is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments. While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as part of the book's launch, she revealed that it was during a kitchen table conversation with Kimmel and his head writer (and wife) McNearney that the segment "Mean Tweets" originated, after she and Kimmel read cruel tweets to each other in a humorous way, trying to outdo each other. In October 2020, her directorial debut Pink Skies Ahead premiered at AFI Fest.

Personal life

Oxford and her husband James Skitmore were together for 17 years, until divorcing in 2016. She has three children. She revealed in 2023 that she'd been diagnosed with OCD and ADHD.

Books

  • (2013) Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar (paperback edition 2014, ISBN 978-0062102232)
  • (2017) When You Find Out the World is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments (hardcover, ISBN 978-0062322777)

References

  1. "The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011". Time. March 28, 2011. Archived from the original on April 15, 2011. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  2. ^ Sperling, Nicole (June 19, 2012). "Twitter sensation Kelly Oxford hooks Hollywood". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  3. ^ Lederman, Marsha (April 2013). "How Calgary mom Kelly Oxford tweeted her way to Hollywood". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  4. Hoby, Hermione (May 11, 2013). "Twitter's first star". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  5. "Candidly Nicole Full Cast & Crew". IMDB.
  6. Andreeva, Nellie (February 19, 2016). "Kelly Oxford & Molly McNearney To Create & Star In Semi-Autobiographical Comedy For TV Land". Deadline. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  7. Oxford, Kelly (April 18, 2017). When You Find Out the World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments. Place of publication not identified: Dey Street Books. ISBN 9780062322777.
  8. Jimmy Kimmel Live! April 11, 2017. ABC.
  9. Gee, Dana (May 5, 2017). "Kelly Oxford:Author and self confessed Trump troll visits Vancouver". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  10. Fernandez, Alexia (July 17, 2018). "Author Kelly Oxford, Who Started #NotOkay, Claims Her Ex-Husband Once Threw a Phone at Her Head". People. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  11. Oxford, Kelly (October 24, 2023). "On Julia Fox and Intrusive Thoughts". Permanent Retrograde. Substack. Retrieved December 7, 2023.

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