Having grown up in a rural town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Kennerly went on to live in places like New York City, London, and San Francisco. She taught English in Japan for three years and has traveled through dozens of countries from Central America to Southeast Asia. She now leads an adventurous suburban life on the outskirts of Philadelphia with her husband and two teenage sons. A memoir, Letters from East of Nowhere: Daddy’s Words to Live, Drink & Die By, released in June 2023. Kennerly is now working on a book series about menopausal women and midlife meltdowns. Her work has appeared in major U.S. newspapers and magazines and she is the co-author of The Buzz On Travel. Her first ebook Calling of Ancestors: Finding Forgotten Secrets in My DNA was published as a Kindle Single.