Ainsley Kelly
Ainsley Kelly
Education
PhD, English, University of Missouri - Columbia: in progress
MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Washington - Seattle: 2018
BA, English, Santa Clara University: 2012
Research and Teaching
Areas of Study
- Creative Writing
- Queer, Feminist, Antiracist, Decolonial, and Ecocritical Theory
- Environmental Humanities
- Poetry and Poetics
Bio
Pronouns: she/her
Ainsley Kelly is a poet and educator from California. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Passages North, Poets.Org, Fourteen Hills, DMQ Review, Hummingbird, Quiddity, and The Santa Clara Review among others. She has received support from the Community of Writer's, the Napa Valley Writers Conference, and Santa Clara University's Canterbury Scholarship.
Awards and Honors
- Academy of American Poets Prize/Harold Taylor Prize (2018)
- Academy of American Poets Prize/Tamara Verga Prize (2011)
- Eleanor B. North Poetry Prize (2011)
- Shipsey Poetry Prize (2010)