She received a BA from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA and a MFA from Hunter College, NYC. Keliy is a 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts photography fellow who teaches the wet plate collodion photography process at The Center for Alternative Photography in NYC, The Bakery Photo Collective in Maine, and at Hampshire College. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums throughout the United States. She currently lives and works in Queens, New York.