Donika Kelly (born early 1980s)[1] is an American poet and academic, who is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa,[2] where she teaches creative writing.
[9] Kelly earned her MFA in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers[10] and a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University.
[2] Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review,[12] Foglifter,[13] and The New Yorker, among other journals and magazines,[14] and she is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.
[16] Kelly was born in Los Angeles, California, in the early 1980s and moved with her family to Arkansas in the late 1990s.
In it, Kelly explains how the way in which society perceives the role of white men is largely influenced by the way they are portrayed in media, with a particular focus on contemporary Western films.