![]() ![]() Since graduating with a degree in Art from UCSC she has lived in Santa Cruz, California. Her second book, Bonfire Opera, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. She was raised in the California Bay Area, spending her early years in Mill Valley, then moving to Berkeley, where she attended The College Preparatory School. Danusha Lamris is a poet, teacher, and essayist. Her third book, Blade by Blade, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press.Ībout: Laméris is an American poet born to a Dutch father and a Caribbean mother from the island of Barbados. The 2020 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, she is a Poet Laureate emeritus of Santa Cruz County, California, co-leads the Poetry of Resilience webinars with James Crews, and is on the faculty of Pacific University's low-residency MFA program. Her second book, Bonfire Opera, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and winner of the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. ![]() Some of her poems have been published in: The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, The SUN Magazine, Tin House, The Gettysburg Review, POETRY, and Ploughshares. ![]() She is the author of The Moons of August (Autumn House, 2014), which was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. BIO: Danusha Laméris is a poet, teacher, and essayist. ![]()
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