for the Kate Daniels urban fantasy mystery series, see Ilona Andrews

Ilona Andrews

Ilona Andrews is the pen name used by urban fantasy novelist Ilona Gordon with her spouse Andrew Gordon, also known as Gordon.Ilona was born in Russia and came to the United States as a teenager. She attended Western Carolina University, where she majored in biochemistry and met her husband...

Kate Daniels (born July 2, 1953 in Richmond, Virginia

Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...

 ) is an American poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

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Life

Kate Daniels was born in Richmond, Virginia. She was educated at the University of Virginia (B.A. and M.A. in English Literature) and Columbia University (M.F.A. School of the Arts). Her teaching career has taken her to the University of Virginia; the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Louisiana State University; Wake Forest University; Bennington College; and Vanderbilt University. Her first book of poetry, The White Wave (Pittsburgh, 1984), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Her second volume, The Niobe Poems (Pittsburgh, 1988), received honorable mention for the Paterson Poetry Prize. Four Testimonies, her third volume, was selected by Dave Smith for his imprint Southern Messenger Series, published by LSU Press (1998). A fourth volume, A Walk in Victoria’s Secret, was published in 2010 in the same series. She was recently named the winner of the 2011 Hanes Award for Poetry by the Fellowship of Southern Writers for her work to date. Her poetry consistently explores aspects of gender-based and Southern working class experience, and has been described as “distinct in the general history of southern poetry in its devotion to recovering the urban, working-class South, presenting a vision of the literal and cultural poverty” of such lives." (www.encyclopediavirginia.org)

Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and have been the recipient of awards including the Best American Poetry 2010, edited by Amy Gerstler; the Best American Poetry 2008, edited by Charles Wright; the Crazyhorse Prize for Poetry; a Pushcart Prize, the Louisiana Literature Poetry Prize, and the James Dickey Prize from Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art. In 2003, she served as a judge for the National Book Award in Poetry. She has twice been selected to participate in the Lannan Poetry Foundation’s Readings & Conversations programs, with Philip Levine and Tony Hoagland.

Kate Daniels resides in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, and chair of the Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series. She has served as Poet in Residence at Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

 Medical Center and Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...

 Medical Center. She is also on the writing faculty of the Washington (D.C.) Center for Psychoanalysis. She has been married to Geoff Macdonald, head coach of women's tennis at Vanderbilt, since 1986. They have three grown children.

Awards

• Hanes Award for Poetry, Fellowship of Southern Writers, 2011
• Lannan Foundation Writers Residency Fellowship, 2009 Lannan Foundation
• Best American Poetry of 2010
• Best American Poetry of 2008
• Pushcart Prize
• Crazyhorse Prize for Poetry
• Louisiana Literature Poetry Prize
• James Dickey Prize
• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
  Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
  The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language.This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA was initiated by Ed Ochester and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel. The prize is...
  
  
• Bunting Fellowship, Harvard University

Poetry

• A Walk in Victoria’s Secret Louisiana State University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8071-3706-2

External links

• “Interview with Kate Daniels,” interviewed by Charlotte Pence. Chapter 16 (November 15, 2010). http://www.chapter16.org/content/writing-world
• Southern Literary Review: http://southernlitreview.com/authors/who-influenced-award-winning-poet-kate-daniels.htm
• Encyclopedia Virginia: http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Daniels_Kate_1953-
• Vanderbilt University: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/jo89KU
• Kate Daniels' "The Pedicure" in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts
• Cortland Review (winter 2009). http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/09/winter/daniels.htm
• "Original & Unorthodox: Ten Religious Poems Worth Knowing," http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=178954
• http://podcast.lannan.org/2008/10/19/tony-hoagland-with-kate-daniels/"Interview of Tony Hoagland
  Tony Hoagland
  Anthony Dey Hoagland is an American poet and writer. His poetry collection 2003, What Narcissism Means to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a...
  
  ", Lannan podcast]
• Image Artist of the Month. http://imagejournal.org/page/artist-of-the-month/kate-daniels
• "Kate Daniels", Penn Sound