Kelly Dalke is a writer and teacher based in New Hampshire. Her work has been published in The Adroit Journal, New Overland Review, Litro, and elsewhere. She was also recently named a 2025 Luso-American Fellow with the DISQUIET International Literary Program. She is at work on her debut novel and story collection.

Kelly received her MFA in writing from the University of New Hampshire, where 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 in various schools, such as the University of New Hampshire, St. Paul’s School, Johns Hopkins CTY, and Grubstreet, a Boston-based nonprofit writing center. During that time, she worked with professors and writers on their manuscripts, including consulting and editing essays in Morrison’s Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard’s 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison’s Moral and Religious Vision. 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 Manager at Khan World School, where, in partnership with Khan Academy and ASU Prep, she is designing curriculum and teaching in an online, mastery-based model for high school honors students.