Daisy Fried
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Daisy Fried | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 57–58) Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College |
| Subject | Poetry |
Daisy Fried (born 1967, Ithaca, New York) is an American poet.[1]
Fried graduated from Swarthmore College in 1989.[2]
Her work has appeared in The London Review of Books, The Nation,[3] Poetry, The New Republic,[4] American Poetry Review, Antioch Review,[5] Threepenny Review,[6] Triquarterly.[7]
She teaches creative writing in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, and has taught creative writing as the Grace Hazard Conkling Poet-in-Residence at Smith College,[8] at Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, Villanova University, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has written prose about poetry for Poetry,[9] The New York Times[10] and The Threepenny Review[11] and has been a blogger for Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation.
She lives with her husband, Jim Quinn, a writer[12][13][14] (not the radio talk show host), and their daughter, in Philadelphia.[15]
Awards
- 1998 Pew Fellowships in the Arts
- 1999 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, for She Didn't Mean to Do It
- 2004 Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University
- 2005 Cohen Award from Ploughshares for "Shooting Kinesha"
- 2006 Guggenheim Fellow
- 2007 Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards for My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
- 2009 Poetry magazine Editor's Prize for best feature article in the past year for "Sing God-Awful Muse"
- Pushcart Prize
- Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship
