Kelly Dasta

Kelly Dasta is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her work has been published in X-R-A-Y, The Journal, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Brooklyn Writers Foundry, and she was a 2025 Writer-in-Residence at Casa Uno in Costa Rica. She works in marketing at Random House, and in her free time, she enjoys going to indie punk shows, getting lost in museums, and walking her dog in the park.