Denise Duhamel, born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, is the author of numerous collections, including Second Story (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), Scald (Pittsburgh, 2017), Blowout (Pittsburgh, 2013), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Ka-Ching! (Pittsburgh, 2009), and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001). She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014 and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a professor in the MFA program at Florida International University.
