The Norwich University Writers Series welcomes award-winning poet Donika Kelly to campus on Thursday, April 18th, at 4 pm in the Chaplin Gallery.

Donika Kelly is the author of the chapbook Aviarium (fivehundred places 2017), and the full-length collection Bestiary (Graywolf 2016), winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the 2017 Hurston/Wright Award for poetry, and the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Bestiary was also long listed for the National Book Award (2016) and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a Publishing Triangle Award (2017).

A Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and recipient of a fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center, Kelly received her MFA in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers and a Ph.D. in English from V
Vanderbilt University. She is an Assistant Professor at Baruch College, where she teaches creative writing.

This event is sponsored by the Norwich University Writers Series. The Writers Series is produced by the NU College of Liberal Arts. All events are free and open to the public.