She graduated from the Pedagogical Faculty of Syiah Kuala University, and worked as a mathematics teacher in high school.

The novel Seoulusah about the events of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami was published in 2007 and received good reviews from critics.

[3] In October 27–28, 2017, she visited Kazan as part of the Aceh cultural group, where she recited her poems and represented the national dances.

[4] Many times she represented Indonesia in international forums: in 2016 in Kuala Lumpur on the World Poetry Readings of the Great Malay Nusantara organization (Numera) and the meeting of Nusantara poets,[5] and in 2018 in Sabah during the discussion of the Indonesian and Malaysian poets on the role of poetry in the development of bilateral relations.

The sincere voice of D. Kemalavati, coming from the bottom of her heart, is heard in the sounds of rebana as the unfading syair Teungku Sik Pante Kullu from Hikayat about the holy war.