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 others. She was also recently named a 2025 Luso-American Fellow with the DISQUIET International Literary Program and often writes about the experiences of women from girlhood through motherhood, second and third-generation Americans, the working class, and ideas of roots, identity, grief, and love.