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Kelly Boyer Sagert is a fulltime freelance writer in the Cleveland, Ohio area. She has written approximately three dozen books, either bylined or ghostwritten, along with numerous plays. She is the sole scriptwriter for the Emmy-nominated, award-winning history documentary Trail Magic: The Grandma Gatewood Story that appeared on PBS. She also wrote the script for Victoria Woodhull: Shattering Glass Ceilings, a documentary in the editing stages. She has written thousands of articles and blog posts (bylined and ghostwritten), serving as an organic SEO resource for companies, B2B and B2C, since 2006.
Subjects
General
Specialties
history
crypto
boomerangs
Skills
- Articles
- Blog posts
- Books
- Coaching
- Content marketing
- Copywriting
- Editing
- Ghostwriting
- SEO
- Essays
- News
- Profiles
- Scripts
- Web copy
Writing Credits
Her first commissioned play, Freedom’s Light: A Stop Along the Underground Railroad, was performed in May 2009 and was nominated for Ohio’s Governor’s Award for the Arts.
Her second play, Emma Gatewood: Are You Out Of Your Bloomin’ Mind?!, was first performed in August 2013.
Her third play, Sisters Forever: The Burrell Family Letters, was performed in January 2014.
Additional plays include one celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Cleveland Metroparks System. Bound Together: One Great Bundle of Humanity debuted in 2018. In 2023, she wrote Stuck on the Canal for the Cleveland Metroparks System.
Book Credits
- Victoria Woodhull: Shattering Glass Ceilings (Eden Valley Enterprises, with Bette Lou Higgins, 2019)
- Speak the Name (Crisis Chronicles, 2019)
- Hidden History of Lorain County (History Press, 2018)
- The International City: A History of the Lorain International Festival (Lorain Public Library System, 2018)
- Everything to God in Prayer: A Writer’s Weekly Devotional (Loconeal Publishing, 2015)
- Grandma Gatewood: Ohio’s Legendary Hiker (Eden Valley Enterprises, 2012)
- Icons of Women’s Sport (co-authored this two-book series, ABC-Clio, 2011)
- FabJob Guide to Become a Freelance Writer (e-book, FabJob, 2010)
- Flappers (Greenwood Publishing, 2010)
- FabJob Guide to Become a Fitness Club Owner (e-book, FabJob, 2009; print, 2010)
- Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports (Greenwood Publishing, 2009)
- American Popular Culture Through History: The 1970s (Greenwood Publishing, 2007)
- FabJob Guide to Become A Funeral Director (e-book, FabJob, 2005)
- All-Time Greatest Hitters: Joe Jackson (Greenwood Publishing, 2004), a look at one of the most talented — and controversial — athletes of our century
- Birth of Illumination (Lorain Public Library System, 2001)
- ‘Bout Boomerangs: America’s Silent Sport (PlantSpeak Publications, 1996), which the Australian boomerang coach called “nearly perfect”
- about two dozen ghostwritten memoirs
Awards, Honors, Appointments
Scriptwriter for Trail Magic: The Grandma Gatewood Story that has the following award history:
June, 2016: film premieres on PBS stationWOUB, Athens, Ohio.
In April 27, 2017: nominated for an Emmy Award
October 5, 2019: awarded “Best Local Documentary” at the Chagrin Falls Film Festival.
July 9, 2020: awarded Second Place for a Short Documentary at the International Indie Gathering. September 4, 2020 director, Peter Huston, was nominated as Best Director for an Ohio Film and editor, Peggy Foley was nominated for Best Editing of an Ohio Film!
October 1, 2020: TRAIL MAGIC received a designation of Excellence in the Documentary Category and Anne McEvoy (our Grandma Gatewood) received the Excellence designation in the Lead Actress Category of the WRPN Women’s International Film Festival.
December 10, 2021: The Lake Erie Film Festival nominated TRAIL MAGIC for the “Best of its Genre” award.
Selected Work
As author, unless indicated otherwise.
Victoria Woodhull: Shattering Glass Ceilings
Victoria Woodhull (September 23, 1838-June 10, 1927) is truly one of Ohio’s (and the country’s) most remarkable characters–and, in September 2024, a documentary where I wrote the script will debut. Coming from a poverty-stricken background and with little education, she managed to become the first woman to publicly address the U.S. Congress (1870) and the first woman to run for U.S. president (1872). She was an active suffragist, newspaper editor, and Wall Street stockbroker, accomplishing more than anyone could have ever expected. As an understatement, she was also quite controversial; the photo comes from a Harper’s Weekly editorial cartoon from Thomas Nast where he labeled her as “Mrs. Satan.”
I love researching and writing about historical figures of interest, greatly enjoy script writing, and am always looking for these kinds of professional opportunities. I also wrote the script for the Emmy Award-nominated Trail Magic: The Grandma Gatewood Story.
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