Keliy Anderson-Staley is a Houston, Texas-based artist who works in book arts, printmaking, and photographic processes. She is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and a 2013 George and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellow. Additional support for her work has come from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Puffin Foundation, and Houston Arts Alliance. She was also the recipient of awards and residencies from Light Work, Houston Center for Photography, New Orleans Photo Alliance, and Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. 

Collections holding her work include the Library of Congress, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Grace Museum, Houston Airport System, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Portland Museum of Art. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Akron Art Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Southeast Museum of Photography, Shelburne Museum, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Morris Museum of Art, and Riverside Art Museum.

On a Wet Bough, a monograph of her tintype portraits, was published by Waltz Books in 2014. Keliy has a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from Hunter College. She is the Moores Professor of Photography at the School of Art, University of Houston.