Dasha Kelly is a writer, performance artist, and creative change agent. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, and has authored award-winning poetry, essays, and fiction. She is a mainstage storyteller and host with The Moth, is an alum of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and is Poet Laureate Emerita for both the City of Milwaukee and the State of Wisconsin. Dasha is the anthology editor of poetry collection A Line Meant (Jaded Ibis Press) and author of the recent tenth-anniversary reprint of Almost Crimson (Traitmarker Books), which BuzzFeed named as one of the "16 of the Most Exciting Books of 2015 by Independent Publishers."