Donika Kelly is the author of the chapbook Aviarium (500 Places 2017) and the full-length collection Bestiary (Graywolf 2016), winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and long listed for the National Book Award. She is an Assistant Professor at Baruch College, where she teaches creative writing.
The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month with new poems daily from poets we admire, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.