Born and raised in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, poet Denise Duhamel earned a B.F.A. at Emerson College and an M.F.A. at Sarah Lawrence College. She lived in New York City from 1985 until 1999.
Duhamel has published numerous collections of poetry, including Kinky (1997), Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (2001), Ka-Ching! (2009), and Blowout (2013), which was a finalist for a National Books Critics Circle Award. She co-edited, with Nick Carbó, Sweet Jesus: Poems about the Ultimate Icon (2002), and, with Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad, Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (2007). Duhamel has also collaborated with Seaton on several poetry collections, including Exquisite Politics (1997), Oyl (2000), and Little Novels (2002).
Duhamel’s honors include a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has been included in several volumes of Best American Poetry and has also been featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Bill Moyers’ PBS poetry special Fooling with Words. A professor at Florida International University, she lives in Florida.
Denise Duhamel’s most recent book of poetry is Scald (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). Blowout (Pittsburgh, 2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other titles include Ka-Ching! (Pittsburgh, 2009); Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999); andKinky (Orhisis, 1997).She also has co-authored four collaborative books with Maureen Seaton, the most recent of which is CAPRICE (Collaborations: Collected, Uncollected, and New) (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). She and Julie Marie Wade co-authored The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose (Noctuary Press, 2019). She is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.
