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Donika Kelly
Born
early 1980s Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation
Academic and poet
Notable works
The Renunciations
Notable awards
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2022
Spouse
Melissa Febos
Website
donikakelly.com
Donika Kelly (born early 1980s)[1] is an American poet and academic, who is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa, specializing in poetry writing and gender studies in contemporary American literature. She is the author of the chapbook Aviarium, published with fivehundred places in 2017, and the full-length collections Bestiary (Graywolf Press, 2016) and The Renunciations (Graywolf Press, May 2021).
Bestiary is the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the 2017 Hurston/Wright Award for poetry, and the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and was longlisted for the National Book Award in 2016[2] and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award[3] and a Publishing Triangle Award in 2017.[4]
Kelly earned her MFA in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers and a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University. She is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, the recipient of a Lannan Residency fellowship, and a fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review,[5]Foglifter,[6] and The New Yorker, among other journals and magazines,[7] and she is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.[8] Kelly lives in Iowa with her wife Melissa Febos.
^"A Conversation Between Nikky Finney and Donika Kelly" (Nikky Finney interviews Donika Kelly), Los Angeles Review of Books, November 14, 2016.
^"Donika Kelly | Longlist, 2016 National Book Awards". National Book Foundation. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
^"Previous Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
^"The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry". The Publishing Triangle. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
^"Donika Kelly". The Paris Review (227). Winter 2018. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
^"Donika Kelly | English | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The University of Iowa". english.uiowa.edu. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
^Burke, Paul (March 28, 2019). "New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent edited by Margaret Busby". NB. Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
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