Daisy Fried



Daisy Fried (born 1967, Ithaca, New York) is an American poet.

Life
She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1989.

Her work has appeared in The Nation, Poetry, The New Republic, American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Threepenny Review, Triquarterly.

She has taught creative writing as the Grace Hazard Conkling Poet-in-Residence at Smith College, at Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, Villanova University, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has written prose about poetry for Poetry, The New York Times and The Threepenny Review and has been a blogger for Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation.

She lives with her husband, Jim Quinn, a writer  (not the radio talk show host), and their daughter, in  Philadelphia.

Awards

 * 2009 Poetry magazine Editor's Prize for best feature article in the past year for "Sing God-Awful Muse"
 * 2007 Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards for My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
 * 2006 Guggenheim Fellow
 * 2004 Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University
 * 1999 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, for She Didn't Mean to Do It
 * 1998 Pew Fellowships in the Arts
 * Cohen Award from Ploughshares
 * Pushcart Prize
 * Pennsylvania Council in the Arts Fellowship

Writing
Poetry:"The satirical tone here is delicious and the social observation is shrewd...Fried's deftly colloquial surfaces are deceptively charming, often sweetening the bitter with comedy but never denying bitterness." --Sandra Gilbert on My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, Poetry, February 2007.

Georgia Review: "A clear-headed refusal to paper over the weaknesses and foolishnes of human beings runs through this book...Fried manages to balance keen, even savage social criticism with an underlying generosity." --Jeff Gundy on My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, Georgia Review, Winter 2007.

Boston Review: "Fried...crystallizes our American moment with candor and precision." —-Fred Muratori on My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, Boston Review, November/December 2006.

"The Constant Critic": The painter Jane Freilicher once remarked of her friend John Ashbery that he appeared to have “stepped in the fame shit.” This seems to be the case also with Fried, who is on a prize-winning streak, having claimed the Pew Fellowship, the Hodder Fellowship, the Agnes Lynch Starrett prize, the Pushcart, Ploughshares’ Cohen Award, and most recently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College. Bully for her. And may her well-deserved good fortune stop no one from sneaking a look at her work; who couldn’t use the feeling of being alive you’ll find there?