Her first book, Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India, was published by Random House in 2011.

[1] Part memoir, part reported nonfiction, it tells the story of several Indian women to describe the slow pace of social and cultural change in India.

[2] The book received praise from The Washington Post,[3] Macleans[4] and Kirkus Reviews among others.

[5] Kennedy lived in New Delhi, India for five years, as a reporter covering South Asia for National Public Radio and American Public Media's Marketplace Radio.

She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bennington College in Vermont and a BA degree from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.