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 Poets Prize, chosen by Mona Van Duyn. In addition, she has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her poem, "Anxieties," recently appeared in Best American Poetry 2015.

Masini’s work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, the Paris Review, Ms., KGB Book of Poems, Georgia Review, Parnassus, Boulevard, and Open City.

Masini is a Professor of English and 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 is currently working on The Good Enough Mother, a new novel of obsession, psychoanalysis and class.^[3] She lives in New York City.^[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 New York: WW Norton and Co. 1998.

Anthologies

David Lehman ed., Sherman Alexie, guest ed. Best American Poetry 2015 Simon and Schuster, 2015
Jerry Williams, ed. It's Not You It's Me: Poems of Breakup and Divorce Overlook Press, 2012
Michael Meyer, ed. The Bedford Introduction to Literature Macmillan, 2011
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, eds. (1999). Boomer Girls: Poems by Women From the Baby Boom Generation. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-687-2.

References

↑ International Who's Who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopaedia (10 ed.). Routledge. 2001. ISBN 978-0-948875-59-5.
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
↑ http://www.italianamericanwriters.com/Masini.html
↑ http://www.pw.org/content/donna_masini_1

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