Donika Kelly is a poet. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa, specializing in poetry writing and gender studies in contemporary American literature. Kelly's poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Foglifter, and The New Yorker, among other journals and magazines. Her first book of poetry, "Aviarium," was published in 2017, and her full-length collections "Bestiary" was published in 2016. Her third collection, "The Renunciations," was published in 2021. Kelly received an M.F.A. in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers and a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University.