Kelly Davio

Kelly Davio is the Poetry Editor of Tahoma Literary Review. She has published poems in journals including Gargoyle, The Cincinnati Review, The Rumpus, Verse Daily, and others. She studied English at Westmont College and The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Oxford University. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, Whidbey Writers' Workshop, and teaches English as a second language in the Seattle area.

Praise for Burn This House:

"Embracing paradox as the poet's deliverance, Davio evokes Wallace Stevens... " -Shelf Awareness

"Davio explores the erosion of faith, time, memory, and love with clear speakers who are unafraid to expose doubts and question the world. The speakers are alternately compassionate and cruel, ironic and sincere. They speak in poems that sometimes pin us down like an older brother until we call uncle or whisper soft doubts into our ears, making us question our own mothers." -The Rumpus

"...interweaving of the personal and the prophetic, Biblical and family histories, and the betrayals of the physical self make this complex and fascinating debut book worth a second and third reading." -Crab Creek Review