Poet Kate Daniels is the Edwin Mims Professor emerit of English and former director of Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University.
Daniels is the author of six collections of poetry, The White Wave (1984) won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize; The Niobe Poems (1988) received honorable mention for the Paterson Poetry Prize; Four Testimonies (1998) and A Walk in Victoria’s Secret (2010) were selected by Dave Smith for the Southern Messenger Series published by LSU Press. Three Syllables Describing Addiction was published in 2018 and In the months of my son’s recovery was published in 2019.
Her most recent book Slow Fuse of the Possible: A Memoir of Psychoanalysis and Poetry was published in 2021.
On April 13, 2023, Daniels will give a reading as a guest of University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program.