About me
Desiree C. Bailey is from Trinidad and Tobago, and Queens, NY. Her collection What Noise Against the Cane won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and was named one of the Best Books of 2021 by the New York Public Library. Desiree is also the author of the fiction chapbook In Dirt or Saltwater, and has work published in the Academy of American Poets, American Short Fiction, Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Callaloo and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Norman Mailer Center, Kimbilio Fiction, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Poets House, The Conversation, Princeton in Africa and the James Merrill House. She is a recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts award. Desiree was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Clemson University from 2022-2024, and is an Assistant Professor in the MFA for Poets and Writers at UMass Amherst.
