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Dasha Kelly Hamilton
Milwaukee, WI Born: 1991 Link to Author's Website Link to Wisconsin Poet Laureate website |
Biography:
Dasha Kelly Hamilton is a writer, performance artist, curator and facilitator. Ultimately, she’s a creative change agent, leveraging the creative process toward human and social wellness.
Dasha has written for national, regional and local magazines; produced three books of poetry; recorded four spoken word albums; published two novels and an award-winning collection of micro stories; been included in several anthologies; and performed in the last season of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. Her nonprofit, Still Waters Collective, initiated literary arts programming for 20 years, creating platforms for thousands of voices to be honored and heard. She has taught at colleges, conferences and classrooms and curated fellowships for emerging leaders.
An Arts Envoy for the U.S. Embassy, Dasha has facilitated community building initiatives in Botswana, Toronto, Mauritius and Beirut. She is a former Artist of the Year and Poet Laureate for the City of Milwaukee and the 2020-2022 Poet Laureate for the State of Wisconsin. Dasha is a national Rubinger Fellow and a National Laureate Fellow with the American Academy of Poets. Touring nationally, her stage production, Makin’ Cake, uniquely engages communities in a forward dialogue on race, class and equity.
Dasha is working on her third novel, a collection of poems with incarcerated writers and a documentary film.
(From author website
Selected Works by Dasha Kelly Hamilton:
Poetry
Dasha Kelly Hamilton is a writer, performance artist, curator and facilitator. Ultimately, she’s a creative change agent, leveraging the creative process toward human and social wellness.
Dasha has written for national, regional and local magazines; produced three books of poetry; recorded four spoken word albums; published two novels and an award-winning collection of micro stories; been included in several anthologies; and performed in the last season of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. Her nonprofit, Still Waters Collective, initiated literary arts programming for 20 years, creating platforms for thousands of voices to be honored and heard. She has taught at colleges, conferences and classrooms and curated fellowships for emerging leaders.
An Arts Envoy for the U.S. Embassy, Dasha has facilitated community building initiatives in Botswana, Toronto, Mauritius and Beirut. She is a former Artist of the Year and Poet Laureate for the City of Milwaukee and the 2020-2022 Poet Laureate for the State of Wisconsin. Dasha is a national Rubinger Fellow and a National Laureate Fellow with the American Academy of Poets. Touring nationally, her stage production, Makin’ Cake, uniquely engages communities in a forward dialogue on race, class and equity.
Dasha is working on her third novel, a collection of poems with incarcerated writers and a documentary film.
(From author website
Selected Works by Dasha Kelly Hamilton:
Poetry
- In Fullness of the Word: An Anthology of Black American Poet Laureates (2023)
- Life in Short (2020)
- Call It Forth: Poems, Stories & Columns (2014)
- Almost Crimson (2015)
- Makin' Cake