Center for the Literary Arts Speaker Series: Mary-Alice Daniel

Mary-Alice Daniel is the Center for the Literary Arts' inaugural Visiting Writer in Residence. Join us for a reception, followed by readings from her celebrated, genre-spanning works – including new, unpublished poems and selections from secret projects.

Presented in collaboration with the Washington University Department of English.

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Reception: 5 – 5:30 p.m.

Reading and Conversation with Ariana Benson (and Q&A with audience): 5:30 p.m.

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A cross-genre author, Mary-Alice Daniel's work appears in New England Review, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, Callaloo, The Yale Review and more.

Mass for Shut-Ins, her first book of poetry released in March 2023, won the 117th Yale Younger Poets Prize. In November 2022, Ecco/Harper Collins published her trans-continental memoir, A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing, which was People's Book of the Week and one of Kirkus Reviews' best nonfiction books of the year.

A Cave Canem Fellow and an alumna of Yale University and the University of Michigan's Creative Writing MFA, she earned a PhD from the University of Southern California. She holds the 2024 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing at Scripps College.

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