Desiree C. Bailey
{{Short description|Trindadian-American Poet}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Desiree C. Bailey
| occupation = poet
| notable_works = What Noise Against the Cane (2021)
| awards = Yale Younger Poets Prize (2020)
| language = English
| alma_mater = Georgetown University (BA), Brown University (MFA), New York University (MFA)
}}
Desiree C. Bailey is a Trinidadian-American poet and 2020 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.{{Cite web |title=Yale Series of Younger Poets Winners |url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/yale-series-of-younger-poets-winners/ |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=Yale University Press |language=en-US}} She teaches poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.{{Cite web |title=Desiree C. Bailey : English : UMass Amherst |url=https://www.umass.edu/english/about/directory/desiree-c-bailey |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=www.umass.edu}}
Biography
Bailey was born in Trinidad and Tobago.{{Cite web |last=Poets |first=Academy of American |title=Desiree C. Bailey |url=https://poets.org/poet/desiree-c-bailey |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=poets.org |language=en}} Bailey attended Georgetown University, Brown University and New York University.
Bailey's manuscript What Noise Against the Cane was selected by series judge Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2020 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and published in 2021.{{Cite web |title=What Noise Against the Cane |url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256536/what-noise-against-the-cane/ |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=Yale University Press |language=en-US}} What Noise Against the Cane was also a finalist for the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award,{{Cite web |title=Previous Winners & Finalists — Tufts Poetry Awards |url=https://arts.cgu.edu/tufts-poetry-awards/winners-finalists/previous-winners-finalists/#2022 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250214121754/https://arts.cgu.edu/tufts-poetry-awards/winners-finalists/previous-winners-finalists/ |archive-date=2025-02-14 |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=Tufts Poetry Awards |language=en-US}} the 2022 T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize,{{Cite web |title=2022 Four Quartets Prize Winner |url=https://poetrysociety.org/award-winners/four-quartets-prize-2022 |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=Poetry Society of America |language=en}} and the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry,{{Cite web |last=Andrews |first=Meredith |date=2021-10-05 |title=2021 National Book Awards Finalists Announced |url=https://www.nationalbook.org/2021-national-book-award-finalists-announced/ |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=National Book Foundation |language=en-US}} as well as being named one of the "Best Books of 2021" by the New York Public Library.{{Cite web |title=Best Books for Adults 2021 {{!}} The New York Public Library |url=https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/best-books/adults?year=2021 |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=www.nypl.org |language=en}} Bailey was a James Merrill House Fellow in 2021.{{Cite web |title=Writer-in-Residence Testimonies |url=https://www.jamesmerrillhouse.org/fellows |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=James Merrill House |language=en}}
Works
- What Noise Against the Cane, New Haven, Connecticut; London: Yale University Press, 2021. {{ISBN|9780300256536}}
References
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Category:Yale Younger Poets winners
Category:New York University alumni
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:21st-century American poets
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:Trinidadian and Tobagonian diaspora in the United States