Donna Masini
Donna Masini is a poet and novelist who was born in Brooklyn and lives in New York City.[1]
Life
She graduated from Hunter College and New York University. Her work frequently deals with urban life and the working-class. Her first book of poems, That Kind of Danger, received the Barnard Women Poet’s Prize, chosen by Mona Van Duyn. In addition, she has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant.
Masini’s work has appeared in American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, the Paris Review, Ms., KGB Book of Poems, Georgia Review, Parnassus, Boulevard, and Lyric.
Masini currently teaches poetry as a part of CUNY Hunter College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.[2] She has also taught at Columbia University and New York University
She married Judd Tully in 1986. She lives in New York City.[3] She is currently working on a new novel of obsession, psychoanalysis and class.[4]
Awards
- Barnard Women Poet’s Prize, That Kind of Danger
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
- Pushcart Prize
Bibliography
Poetry
- Turning to Fiction: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2004. ISBN 978-0-393-05970-0.
- That Kind of Danger: Poems. Boston: Beacon Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-8070-6823-6.
Novels
- About Yvonne: A Novel. New York: WW Norton and Co. 1998.
Anthologies
- Billy Collins, ed. (2005). "Slowly". 180 more: extraordinary poems for every day. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8129-7296-2.
- Pamela Gemin, Paula Sergi, ed. (1999). Boomer girls: poems by women from the baby boom generation. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-687-2.
References
External links
- Donna Masini Official Homepage
- "Donna Masini" Italian American Writers
- "Donna_Masini and June Jordan", Poetry Branching Out
- "Donna Massini listens to Robert Creeley reading James Wright's poetry at the 1996 festival in Martin's Ferry, Ohio."
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