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Daisy Fried

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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]atHaverford 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]

• 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

Books

• She Didn't Mean to Do It. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2000. ISBN 0-8229-5738-8.
• My Brother is Getting Arrested Again. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-8229-5919-9.
• Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8229-6238-0.

Poems Online

• "Doll Ritual; Shooting Kinesha; Better Read, A Valentine; Stealing From Lehigh Dairy & My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again". Poetry magazine. Spring 2006. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011.
• "Women's Poetry". The Nation. June 3, 2009.
• "Attenti agli Zingari". American Poetry Review. 38 (6). December 2009. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014.
• "Torment". Poetry. March 2011 – via Poetry Foundation.

• Collins, Billy, ed. (2003). Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry. Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-8129-6887-3.
• Coghill, Sheila; Tammaro, Thom, eds. (2003). Visiting Walt: poems inspired by the life & work of Walt Whitman. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-854-8.
• Ochester, Ed, ed. (2007). American poetry now: Pitt poetry series anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-4310-5.
• Schwepcke, Barbara Haus; Swainson, Bill, eds. (2019). A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West. Gingko Library. ISBN 978-1-90994-228-8. (Translator)

• "Poetry on the Web". Poetry. May 2005 – via Poetry Foundation.
• "Who Needs to Hear A Quagga's Voice?". Poetry. January 2009 – via Poetry Foundation.
• "Prufrock Moment". Harriet Books. February 5, 2009 – via Poetry Foundation.
• "Sing, God-awful Muse!". Poetry. August 2009 – via Poetry Foundation.

• King, Amy (September 8, 2008). "A Conversation With Daisy Fried". Odeo. Archived from the original (MP3) on November 18, 2008.