Danielle Georges

Danielle Georges is a writer and translator, and the author of Maroon, a collection of poetry (Curbstone Press, 2001). Her poems have appeared in Agni, The American Poetry Review, Black Renaissance Noire, the Boston Globe, and The Christian Science Monitor among other literary journals and anthologies - and have been read on WBUR/National Public Radio and The Voice of America. She has received MacDowell Colony, LEF and other fellowships for her work.

She has been a visiting faculty member of the William Joiner Center, University of Massachusetts Boston; part of the Joiner Center's Hispanic Writers Week Faculty; led the Brockton Public Library Writers Workshop; and been a member of the Dark Room Writers Collective.

Danielle Georges is an Associate Professor in the Creative Arts in Learning Division of Lesley University's Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences. She teaches the following courses: The Language of Poetry; Teaching Poetry to Children; Arts and Education: History and Philosophy; and Issues in Contemporary Education.

Her research interests include contemporary American poetry, African-American poetry, Caribbean literature, postcolonial studies, and historiography.