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Dasha Kelly is a writer, performer, facilitator and carrot cake connoisseur. Her writings have appeared in anthologies, text books, magazines and online. Dasha performs and delivers workshops to writers, youth, educators, executives, inmates, co-eds and artists throughout the U.S. She has made three trips to Botswana as an Arts Envoy for the U.S. Embassy. She is founder and director of a social profit organization that utilizes the process of writing and the power of spoken performance to build communities, craft and courage. She was a finalist for the 2014-2016 Wisconsin Poet Laureate. Her novel, Almost Crimson (Curbside Splendor 2015) earned strong national reviews and is being considered as a stage play. She attended the Community of Writers in 2012. www.dashakelly.com