Vem daterade Donika Kelly?

Donika Kelly (born early 1980s) is an American poet and academic, who is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa, where she teaches creative writing. 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 Legacy Award for poetry, and the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and was longlisted for the National Book Award in 2016 and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a Publishing Triangle Award in 2017.

The Renunciations was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and the winner of the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for poetry.

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 Foundation 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, Foglifter, and The New Yorker, among other journals and magazines, and she is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby. Kelly lives in Iowa with her wife Melissa Febos.

Melissa Febos is an American writer and professor. She is the author of the memoirs Whip Smart (2010) and The Dry Season (2025) and the essay collections Abandon Me (2017), Girlhood (2021), and Body Work (2022).