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Tina Kelley has enjoyed living in Maplewood for the past six years, and can frequently been found at Knit Knack on Springfield Avenue, picking up supplies for her latest shawl or sweater. When she is not ferrying her two children to school and after-school activities, or taking family hikes at the South Mountain Reservation, she is busy writing articles for The New York Times, where she has been a staff reporter for 10 years. She was most recently assigned to the Newark bureau, where she wrote about the possible afterschool closing of the Maplewood library and children who were afraid of automatic flush toilets, but she has also written articles involving the mysterious deaths of bats in the Northeast, the services summer camps provide to parents and the infamous Maplewood gum wall. After 9/11 she wrote 121 Portraits of Grief, winning a tiny fraction of The Times’ Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism in 2002. Her book of poetry, “The Gospel of Galore” (Word Press, Cincinnati ), won a Washington State Book Award in 2003. She grew up in Morristown, and her husband wears a T-shirt that says “Jersey Doesn’t Like You Either.”