Life

She graduated from Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia....

 in 1989.

Her work has appeared in The Nation, Poetry, The New Republic, American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Threepenny Review, Triquarterly.

She has taught creative writing as the Grace Hazard Conkling Poet-in-Residence at Smith College

Smith College

Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...

, at Haverford College

Haverford College

Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia...

, Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College is a women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia. The name "Bryn Mawr" means "big hill" in Welsh....

, Villanova University

Villanova University

Villanova University is a private university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States...

, Temple University

Temple University

Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...

, University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

, the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College

Warren Wilson College

Warren Wilson College is a private four-year work college in the Swannanoa Valley, North Carolina, United States near Asheville. It is known for its curriculum of work, academics, and service, called "the Triad," which requires every student to work an on-campus job, perform at least one hundred...

 and the Fine Arts Work Center

Fine Arts Work Center

The Fine Arts Work Center is a non-profit enterprise devoted to encouraging the growth and development of emerging visual artists and writers through residency programs, to the propagation of aesthetic values and experience, and to the restoration of the year-round vitality of the historic art...

 in Provincetown. She has written prose about poetry for Poetry, The New York Times and The Threepenny Review and has been a blogger for Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation.

She lives with her husband, Jim Quinn, a writer (not the radio talk show host), and their daughter, in Philadelphia.

Awards

• 2009 Poetry magazine Editor's Prize for best feature article in the past year for "Sing God-Awful Muse"
• 2007 Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards for My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
• 2006 Guggenheim Fellow
• 2004 Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University
• 1999 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...
  
  , for She Didn't Mean to Do It
• 1998 Pew Fellowships in the Arts
  Pew Fellowships in the Arts
  The Pew Fellowships in the Arts is an organization established by the Pew Charitable Trusts in 1991 which awards grants to Philadelphia-area artists. The grants provide artists with an economic freedom that presents the opportunity to focus on their individual practices over a considerable period...
  
  
• Cohen Award from Ploughshares
• Pushcart Prize
• Pennsylvania Council in the Arts Fellowship

Works

Books

Poems Online

• "Women's Poetry", The Nation, June 3, 2009
• "DOLL RITUAL"; "SHOOTING KINESHA"; "BETTER READ, A VALENTINE"; "STEALING FROM LEHIGH DAIRY"; "MY BROTHER IS GETTING ARRESTED AGAIN", Poetry Magazine

Essays

• "Poetry on the Web", Poetry Magazine
• "Sing, God-awful Muse!", Poetry Foundation
• "Who Needs to Hear A Quagga’s Voice?", Poetry Foundation
• "Prufrock Moment", harriet, 02.05.09

Ploughshares

Reviews

"The satirical tone here is delicious and the social observation is shrewd...Fried's deftly colloquial surfaces are deceptively charming, often sweetening the bitter with comedy but never denying bitterness." --Sandra Gilbert on My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, Poetry, February 2007.

"A clear-headed refusal to paper over the weaknesses and foolishnes of human beings runs through this book...Fried manages to balance keen, even savage social criticism with an underlying generosity." --Jeff Gundy on My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, Georgia Review, Winter 2007.

"Fried...crystallizes our American moment with candor and precision." —-Fred Muratori on My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, Boston Review, November/December 2006.

The painter Jane Freilicher once remarked of her friend John Ashbery

John Ashbery

John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...

that he appeared to have “stepped in the fame shit.” This seems to be the case also with Fried, who is on a prize-winning streak, having claimed the Pew Fellowship, the Hodder Fellowship, the Agnes Lynch Starrett prize, the Pushcart, Ploughshares’ Cohen Award, and most recently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College. Bully for her. And may her well-deserved good fortune stop no one from sneaking a look at her work; who couldn’t use the feeling of being alive you’ll find there?

External links

• "A Conversation With Daisy Fried", Odeo, September 08, 2008 (From the Bowery Club in New York, Amy King interviews Daisy Fried)