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Mary-Alice Daniel

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Maiduguri, Nigeria

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Poetry, Memoir

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Mary-Alice Daniel was born near the Niger/Nigeria border, then raised in England and Tennessee. A cross-genre author, she has published work in New England Review, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, The Yale Review, Callaloo, and several journals and anthologies.

MASS FOR SHUT-INS, 117th winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, was released in March 2023 and received the California Book Award. Selecting the collection, Rae Armantrout called it “Flowers of Evil for the 21st century"; the Poetry Foundation describes its “Plathian edge and ear.”

In 2022, her tri-continental memoir, A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing (Ecco/HarperCollins), was People’s Book of the Week and one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Nonfiction Books of t ...more

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	A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents 3.59 avg rating — 408 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mass for Shut-Ins (Volume 117) (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Mary-Alice Daniel (Goodreads Author), Rae Armantrout (Foreword) 4.17 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood For The Blood God it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars