Danielle Legros Georges is a creative and critical writer, translator, and academic who works in the fields of contemporary U.S. poetry, African-American and African-diasporic poetry and literature, Caribbean/Latin American and Haitian studies. She is the author of several books of poetry including Maroon (2001), The Dear Remote Nearness of You(2016), and Island Heart (2021), translations of the poems of 20th-century Haitian-French poet Ida Faubert. The former Poet Laureate of Boston, her work has been supported by fellowships and grants from institutions including The American Antiquarian Society, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, the Boston Foundation, and the Black Metropolis Research Consortium.

Website: daniellelegrosgeorges.com

Awards

• American Antiquarian Society Fellowship(2023)

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in English/Creative Writing--Poetry from New York University (May 1998)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry