[1] Kelman's first novel, girls, was a San Francisco Chronicle and New York Journal News Best Book of the Year[2] when it was published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company in 2003.
[3] Focused on the dangers of toxic masculinity long before the term entered the popular vernacular, girls began as Kelman’s MFA thesis at Brown where it was awarded the James Assatly Prize for fiction.
The first book of Art History published on the topic, it has introduction written by Kelman's former MIT Professor, pop culture icon, Dr. Henry Jenkins.
[6] Since then, Kelman has also written original screenplays for other major studios, directors and producers including Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Roland Emmerich.
[7] Kelman's illustrated novel, "How To Pass As Human," was published by Dark Horse Books in 2015 and is currently under development as a streaming series.