Kelly Dolejsi has published poetry and fiction in numerous literary journals, including North American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Fifth Wednesday, The Hunger, Broken Ribbon, West Texas Literary Review, Junto, Gravel, Dirty Paws, The Hungry Chimera, Joey and the Black Boots, and The Disconnect. Her poem “Loyalty” was nominated for the Best of the Net, and her contribution to the book, September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (edited by William Heyen) was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook, That Second Starling, was published in 2018 by Desert Willow Press. She has also written theatrical plays, newspaper columns, and feature news stories for her local community in Los Alamos, NM. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston.
PRAISE:
As Kelly Dolejsi fuses her subjects—family, countless shifting selves, her own mind attending itself as it lyrics its way toward momentary closure that will enable her to rest until the next poem—I remained rapt within The Missing Sea. She is heir to the wildness here (“my own heart / gone feral”) that Emerson asked for and Dickinson opened her musical breast & brain to, but at the same time the compression of form in these 14-liners absorbs her concentration as illuminations occur for herself and for us because of her self-imposed boundaries. Dolejsi’s craft and intuitive genius has led her to—dare I say it?—a masterpiece.
–William Heyen, National Book Award Finalist, author of Nature: Selected & New Poems, Diaspora: Fifteen Collections
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