Kelly E. Carter is the Founder/President of The Jet Set Pets, a New York Times bestselling author and freelance writer who keeps her finger on the pulse of what’s hot in the worlds of travel, entertainment, fine dining, spirits, pets, fashion and sports while globetrotting to report for various domestic and international media outlets.

Inspired by her dog Lucy, she launched The Jet Set Pets, the luxury travel resource for the pampered pet on the go, in fall 2011.

Tennis phenom Venus Williams turned to Kelly as her co-author for Come to Win: Business Leaders, Artists, Doctors, and Other Visionaries on How Sports Can Help You Top Your Profession, which became a bestseller shortly after its summer 2010 release.

She's journeyed to more than 40 countries on six continents and occasionally shares her expertise on the Travel Channel. The bon vivant helped The Bikini Chef launch her now-popular radio show.

The member of the Fourth Estate showed her dedication to her craft from the start when she gave up the warmth of Los Angeles to begin her award-winning sports writing career at the tiny Iowa City Press-Citizen in the dead of winter. She paid her dues every step of the way and climbed journalism's ladder to the Pittsburgh Press, Dallas Morning News then Orange County Register, where she landed her dream job and made history as the first female beat writer assigned to cover the Los Angeles Lakers. From there it was on to USA Today as an NFL and NBA writer before she switched to broadcast and joined CNN-SI as an on-air correspondent.

Her flair for quickly bonding with boldface names allowed her to segue from sports to entertainment/celebrity fashion at People, where she worked her way up to Insider columnist. Soon, USA Today lured her back to dazzle the nation’s readers with her impressive celebrity coverage. She sat down with a multitude of A-list stars for one-on-one interviews and became a fixture at Hollywood award shows, premieres and parties. When she wore out her stilettos on the red carpet in 2003, she fulfilled a fantasy of many and moved to Italy, where she launched her freelance travel writing career and enjoyed la bella vita until 2005. The peripatetic writer briefly settled down in the media capital of New York until wanderlust got the best of her once again.

Now back in her native Los Angeles and reconnected with her University of Southern California family, Kelly toils away on her second book, Bellini for One, about her glorious two-year experience living in Florence and Positano. As versatile as she is nomadic, the well-traveled writer has covered the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Grammys, NBA Finals, Super Bowl, Stanley Cup Finals, NCAA Final Four, Wimbledon, tennis' U.S. Open, the Kentucky Derby, a host of college football bowl games, Fashion Week in New York, Milan and Los Angeles, film festivals in Park City (Sundance), Venice, Cannes and Acapulco and the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. On the road, she is often accompanied by her faithful traveling companion of nine years, Lucy, a longhair Chihuahua and celeb in her own right.

Having met a wide array of people over the years, it was a natural for her to launch Kelly Carter Connects, which links businesses, charitable organizations and individuals together for the purpose of bringing awareness to a brand or event.

Kelly has been featured in the pages of the New York Times and Ebony. As a motivational speaker, she enjoys preparing youths for a path of success and encouraging everyone to pursue their passion.

Please feel free to contact Kelly.