Jazzy Danziger (born 1984) is an American poet and editor.

Life and career

Danziger was born in

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and raised in

Maitland, Florida Maitland is a suburban city in Orange County, Florida, United States, part of the Greater Orlando area. The population was 19,543 at the 2020 census. The area's history is exhibited at the Maitland Historical Museum; the city also hosts the Mai ...

. She earned her bachelor's degree from

Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...

and her MFA in Poetry from the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United S ...

, where she was Editor in Chief of ''Meridian''. She has served as series editor for the annual

Best New Poets The ''Best New Poets'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing fifty poems from poets without a previously published collection. The first edition of the series appeared in 2005, and was published, as all later editions hav ...

anthology since 2011.

Books

As author: *''Darkroom'' (

University of Wisconsin Press The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals. It publishes work by scholars from the global academic community; works of fiction, memoir and po ...

, 2012) As editor: *''Best New Poets 2015'' (Samovar/

University of Virginia Press The University of Virginia Press (or UVaP) is a university press that is part of the University of Virginia. It was established in 1963 as the University Press of Virginia, under the initiative of the university's then President, Edgar F. Shannon ...

, 2015) with guest editor

Tracy K. Smith Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published four collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume ''Life ...

*''Best New Poets 2014'' (Samovar/

, 2014) with guest editor

Dorianne Laux Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952 in Augusta, Maine) is an American poet. Biography Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988. Laux taught at the Universi ...

*''Best New Poets 2013'' (Samovar/

, 2013) with guest editor

Brenda Shaughnessy Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970) is an American poet. Life Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa and grew up in Southern California. She received her BA in literature and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and MFA at Columbia Uni ...

*''Best New Poets 2012'' (Samovar/

, 2012) with guest editor

Matthew Dickman Matthew Dickman (born August 20, 1975) is an American poet. He and his identical twin brother, Michael Dickman, also a poet, were born in Portland, Oregon. Life The Dickman twins (Matthew is the younger and slightly taller) were raised in the Len ...

*''Best New Poets 2011'' (Samovar/

, 2011) with guest editor

D. A. Powell Douglas A. Powell (born May 16, 1963 Albany, Georgia) is an American poet. Life and career Powell lived in various places growing up, then graduated high school from Lindhurst High School in Olivehurst, California. He then worked in a number of ...

Anthology publications: *''Two Weeks: A Digital Anthology of Contemporary Poetry'' (Linebreak, 2011)

Awards

Brittingham Prize in Poetry The Brittingham Prize in Poetry is a major United States literary award for a book of poetry chosen from an open competition. The prize, established in 1985, is sponsored by the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is ...

(Judge:

Jean Valentine __NOTOC__ Jean Valentine (April 27, 1934December 29, 2020) was an American poet and the New York State Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010. Her poetry collection, ''Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003'', was awarded the 2004 Na ...

) (2012) "http://www.pw.org/content/recent_winners " From the University of Virginia: *Henry Hoyns/Poe-Faulkner Fellowship (2008–2010) From Washington University in St. Louis: *Academy of American Poets Prize (Judge:

Bin Ramke Lloyd Binford Ramke (born 19 February 1947, in Port Neches, Texas) is an American poet and editor. Life He graduated from Louisiana State University, from University of New Orleans, and from Ohio University with a Ph.D. He taught at Columbus Col ...

) (2006) *Academy of American Poets Prize Honorable Mention (Judge:

Thomas Sayers Ellis Thomas Sayers Ellis (born Washington, D.C.) is an American poet, photographer and band leader. He previously taught as an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Bennington College in Vermont, and also at Sarah Lawrenc ...

) (2007) *Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Poetry (2006 and 2007) *Norma Lowry Memorial Fund Prize for Poetry (2007) *Andrea Goff Memorial Prize for Poetry (2007) *Julia Viola McNeely Memorial Prize for Poetry (2006 and 2007)

References

1984 births Writers from Orlando, Florida Writers from St. Louis Living people American women poets People from Maitland, Florida 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers Trinity Preparatory School alumni Washington University in St. Louis alumni University of Virginia alumni {{US-poet-1980s-stub