Mary-Alice Daniel

Mary-Alice Daniel was born near the Niger/Nigeria border and raised in England and Tennessee. Her writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, the Yale Review, Callaloo, and the Best New Poets anthology. 

Mass for Shut-Ins, her first book of poetry, won the 2022 Yale Younger Poets Prize and was released in March 2023. Selecting this collection, judge Rae Armantrout called it “Flowers of Evil for the 21st century.” 

This past November, Ecco/Harper Collins published Daniel’s first book of prose, A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing, a migrant memoir chosen as People’s Book of the Week and one of Kirkus Review’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2022. 

A Cave Canem Fellow, she holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and a PhD from the University of Southern California. She is presently working on her third and fourth books as a postdoctoral research fellow at Brown University. 

She is obviously a Scorpio.
Find her on Twitter @MaryAlicePoetry and Instagram @drmaryalicedaniel