Kelly Dalke
Instructor
About Kelly
Kelly is a creator and educator. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of New Hampshire where she was a teaching fellow and awarded the Young Dawkins III Prize in Creative Writing. She worked with Dawnland Voices 2.0, an online literary magazine for Indigenous writers of New England, and was the Arts Editor for Barnstorm Literary Journal. Kelly has taught at a variety of schools such as the University of New Hampshire, St. Paul’s School, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, and Grubstreet. She was recently Head of Faculty at US Performance Academy, an online middle and high school for high-performing athletes, and is now a Guide at Khan World School, where in partnership with Khan Academy and ASU Prep Academy she is designing curriculum and teaching in an online, mastery based model for high school honors students. Her fiction often focuses on working class people with themes of grief, roots, identity, and motherhood. Kelly’s work can be found in Well-Schooled, Flash Fiction Magazine, Litro, and she was a finalist for the Charles Johnson Fiction Award with Crab Orchard Review. She is also interested in memoir, short fiction, novel, novella, story collections, magical realism, international, and cross-cultural work.