Kelly Hoffer

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Kelly Hoffer (she/her) is a poet and book artist. Her debut collection of poems, UNDERSHORE, won the 2022 Lightscatter Press Prize and was published in May 2023. Her manuscript “Fire Series” was a finalist for the 2021 National Poetry Series and the Georgia Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, American Chordata, TAGVVERK, Chicago Review, Prelude, the Bennington Review, and Second Factory, among other publications. She earned an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is finishing a PhD in English language and literature at Cornell University. She is the 2023 Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry at the University of Michigan.