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Name
  
Kelly Oxford

Role
  
Author

Spouse
  
James (m. 2007)


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Books
  
Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar

Profiles

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Kelly Oxford (born November 29, 1977) is a Canadian author, screenwriter, and social media influencer.

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Career

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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.

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In 2001, she became a full-time stay-at-home mother and began focusing on her online writing, and script writing. Oxford started an anonymous blog in 2002. Oxford joined Twitter In 2009, and gained a large following. She attracted the attention of celebrities including Diablo Cody and Roger Ebert and was eventually contacted by a number of agents. She later sold a television script to CBS that was 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, but it was also never produced. She moved to Los Angeles in 2012.

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In 2013, Oxford published a semi-autobiographical book, Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar, which became a New York Times bestseller.

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In 2014, Oxford appeared on the reality show, Candidly Nicole, starring daughter of Lionel Richie, Nicole Richie.

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In 2016, following the release of the Donald Trump and Billy Bush recording during the presidential election, Oxford tweeted a request for women to "tweet me your first assaults" and within days received 27 million views and responses. The response was so large that it received coverage by The New York Times and other media.

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! during an interview regarding the launch of her book, it was revealed that it was at a kitchen table conversation between she, Jimmy Kimmel, and his wife that they collectively originated the basis for the Jimmy Kimmel Live! segment "Mean Tweets", after she and Kimmel had read cruel tweets they found on Twitter to each other in a humorous way--trying to out-do each other.

In 2017 she will also appear in The Disaster Artist, a film on which she was also an on set writer.

Personal life

Oxford and husband James were together for 18 years prior to their split in fall 2016. Together, the pair have three children: Salinger (Sal) Oxford (born 2001), Henry Oxford (born 2003), and Beatrix (Bea) Oxford (born 2008).

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

    Kelly Oxford Wikipedia