Kelly Brenner is a naturalist, photographer, and writer based in Seattle. She is the author of Nature Obscura: A City's Hidden Natural World, which was a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and the Pacific Northwest Book Awards.

Her freelance work has been published in Popular Science, National Wildlife Magazine, and The Open Notebook, among others. On her website, she writes about urban nature, wildlife habitat design, books, poetry, folklore, and a variety of other natural history topics.