Donna Masini

Donna Masini is a poet and novelist who was born in Brooklyn and lives in New York City.[1]

Donna Masini attends a rally at Washington Square, New York, in December 2014

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 is a Professor of English and teaches poetry as a part of CUNY Hunter College 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]

4:30 Movie: Poems. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2018. ISBN 978-0-393-63550-8.
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.

David Lehman ed., Sherman Alexie, guest ed. Best American Poetry 2015 Simon and Schuster, 2015
Jason Koo, ed. Brooklyn Poets Brooklyn Arts, 2017
Major Jackson, ed. Renga for Obama Harvard University, 2017
Donna Masini: Turning to Fiction, Video interview with Param Vir, 2012
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.

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International Who's Who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopaedia (10 ed.). Routledge. 2001. ISBN 978-0-948875-59-5.
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"ItalianAmericanWriters.com: Contemporary Italian American Writing - Donna Masini". www.italianamericanwriters.com. Retrieved Jan 7, 2020.
"Donna Masini". Poets & Writers. Retrieved Jan 7, 2020.

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