Kelly Boyer Sagert is a full-time freelance writer with a BA in psychology and a long-time member of the vetted American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA). She teaches non-credit memoir writing to students at Cuyahoga Community College and Baldwin Wallace College. She also teaches writing at Polaris Career Center.
Kelly Boyer Sagert is a full-time freelance writer with a BA in psychology and a long-time member of the vetted American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA). She teaches non-credit memoir writing to students at Cuyahoga Community College and Baldwin Wallace College. She also teaches writing at Polaris Career Center. Boyer Sagert has taught writing for English-speaking people in numerous countries through Writer’s Digest’s online school (since February 2000, continuous, year-round) and at dozens of writer’s conferences and library events in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Boyer Sagert has ghostwritten more than two dozen memoirs (including Cleveland Browns legend, Dante Lavelli) and edited more than three dozen of them. She has written and traditionally published eighteen books under her own byline, been commissioned to write several plays, and has published thousands of shorter pieces in magazines, newspapers, blogs, encyclopedias, and literary journals. She has exclusive scriptwriting credits for the documentary, Trail Magic: The Grandma Gatewood Story, which shares the life story of Emma “Grandma” Gatewood and served as a regional Emmy Award nominee for the “Best Documentary, Historical” category in 2017 and won a Chagrin Documentary Film Festival Award in 2019, among other awards. Boyer Sagert served as the sole scriptwriter and associate producer of Victoria Woodhull: Shattering Glass Ceilings. This recently debuted film recounts the life story of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States (in 1872), the first woman to speak in front of a Congressional committee, and the first female Wall Street stockbroker (the last with her sister, Tennessee).
