
Daisy Fried is the author of My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, She Didn’t Mean to Do It, which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and a just-completed manuscript of poems, Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice, poems from which have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Threepenny Review and elsewhere. She has been awarded Guggenheim, Hodder and Pew Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize and the Cohen Award from Ploughshares, and was for two years the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College. She reviews poetry for the New York Times, Poetry and the Threepenny Review, and received Poetry’s Editors Prize for best feature essay in 2009 for “Sing, God-Awful Muse,” about reading Paradise Lost and breastfeeding. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches creative writing at Bryn Mawr College.