Daisy Fried
Poet

Daisy Fried is the author of five books of poetry: My Destination, The Year the City Emptied, Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, and She Didn’t Mean to Do It. She has been awarded Guggenheim, Hodder and Pew Fellowships.

 

A poetry critic and core faculty member of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, she has also taught undergraduates (at Villanova University, Swarthmore College, University of the Arts, Smith College (as the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence), and elsewhere. She has been faculty at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and online through FAWC's 24 Pearl Street. 

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Daisy is available for readings, workshops, classroom visits, lectures, craft classes, manuscript critiques, private tutorials, book reviews, and essays about poetry. Drop her a line by email, visit the Mentorship & Manuscript Critiques page on this website for more information, or subscribe at the bottom of her home page to a very occasional newsletter.

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A longtime Philadelphian, she recently moved to San Francisco.