Mary-Alice Daniel,
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Personal Website: https://www.maryalicedaniel.com
Biography
Mary-Alice Daniel was born near the Niger/Nigeria border, then raised in England and Tennessee. Mass for Shut-Ins, her first book of poetry, was released as the 117th Yale Younger Poets Prize in March 2023. Four months earlier, Ecco/HarperCollins published her first book of prose, A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents, which was People’s Book of the Week and one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Nonfiction Books of the Year. An alumna of Yale University (BA) and the University of Michigan (MFA), she received a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University, she served as the inaugural Visiting Writer-in-Residence at Washington University in St. Louis. A Cave Canem Fellow, she holds the 2024 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing at Scripps College.