About Kelly

Kelly Rowe’s full-length collection, Rise Above the River, was chosen by Mark Jarman as the winner of the 2021 Able Muse book award and was a finalist for the 2024 Arizona Book Award for Poetry..  She is also the author of two chapbooks, Child Bed Fever (Seven Kitchen Press, 2022), and Flying South on the Back of a Dove (Texas Review Press 2019).  She has recently published poems in journals including North American Review, New Ohio Review, 32 Poems, Massachusetts Review, Salamander, and New Letters.

She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona where she works as a volunteer attorney, representing undocumented women.