Kelly Le Fave

Kelly Le Fave (born 1959) is an American poet.

Life
Le Fave was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Virginia and Maryland.

Kelly Le Fave is a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1999). She received a B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1981. She also holds an M.A. in English Language and Literature from Syracuse University (1990).

She has also spent time living in Western Massachusetts. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two children.

Le Fave is a founding editor of the internationally-distributed literary journal jubilat.

Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Image, The Notre Dame Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review and other journals.

Recognition
Her book manuscript Me Comma You won the 2002 Gibbs-Smith Poetry Prize, and was published by Gibbs Smith.

Teaching
She has taught writing at Syracuse University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the University of Utah.