Born 1967

Poet Daisy Fried is involved with what she calls, “the usual” themes; “sex, love, anxiety, loneliness, desire and death.” But when she writes about these “usual” subjects, Ms. Fried invests them with a singular voice. In her poems, the speaker is often a narrator, transforming the reader into a subject and spreading her desire and anxiety (into which all other subjects fall) to her audience like a mildly contagious bug. A 1989 graduate of Swarthmore College and contributor to numerous publications, including Colorado Review, New York Quarterly, Antioch Review, American Poetry Review and others, Fried’s voice as a poet has been informed by her ear as a journalist. She has worked as a staff writer at alternative weekly papers in Philadelphia and a free-lance contributor to regional publications where she covered not only poetry but a wide range of social, political and cultural issues.