Mary-Alice Daniel
Mary-Alice Daniel was born near the Niger/Nigeria border, then raised in England and Tennessee. Her poetry debut, Mass for Shut-Ins (2023), won the Yale Younger Poets Prize and a California Book Award. Her tricontinental memoir, A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing, was People’s Book of the Week and one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Nonfiction Books of the Year. A Cave Canem Fellow, she held the 2024 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing at Scripps College. She turns to her third and fourth books of poetry + prose as a scholar at Princeton University.
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