Daisy Fried

Daisy Fried
Born	1967 (age 58–59) Ithaca, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Poet
Alma mater	Swarthmore College
Subject	Poetry

Daisy Fried (born 1967, Ithaca, New York) is an American poet.

Life

Fried graduated from Swarthmore College in 1989.

Her work has appeared in The London Review of Books, The Nation, Poetry, The New Republic, American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Threepenny Review, Triquarterly.

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, 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, The New York Times and The Threepenny Review and has been a blogger for Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation.

She lives with her husband, Jim Quinn, a writer (not the radio talk show host), and their daughter, in Philadelphia.

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

Works

Books

Poems Online

Anthologies

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