Kelly Dasta

Kelly Dasta is a writer, professor, and book marketing strategist living in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been published in X-R-A-Y, The Journal, The Los Angeles Review (forthcoming), and other publications. She is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at the Writer’s Foundry at St. Joseph’s University, and she was a 2025 Writer-in-Residence at Casa Uno in Costa Rica. In her free time, she enjoys going to indie punk shows, getting lost in museums, and watching ducks at the park.