JULY 25 — Mary-Alice Daniel guest edits the African myths in Legendary Heroes, a children’s anthology forthcoming from Penguin Random House.

APRIL 3 — George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program hosts Mary-Alice Daniel in its Spring 2025 Visiting Writers Series.

FEBRUARY 18 — Mary-Alice Daniel is a guest speaker at MSU Denver’s Black World Conference.

FEBRUARY 11 — Mary-Alice Daniel presents her research at the Princeton Postdoctoral Research Seminar Series.

2025 SEASON — Mary-Alice Daniel serves as a judge for the New American Voices Award for immigrant writing.

JANUARY 16  —  20.35 Africa features an in-depth conversation exploring the poet’s radically changing style in her second full-length poetry manuscript.

SPRING 2025 — Mary-Alice Daniel teaches a signature seminar on African mythology & narratology at Princeton University.

JANUARY — Rose Pan-African Education & Creative Director Mary-Alice Daniel host Airea D. Matthews for their annual Immersion writing workshop in Senegal.  

2025 SEASON — Mary-Alice Daniel serves as a judge for the Oregon Book Awards.

DEC. 2024 — An essay in Poetry Daily on the featured poem, “One Hell,” considers the possibility that our universe is a hologram.

DEC. 2024 — Brittle Paper reviews Mass for Shut-Ins: “uncannily beautiful.”

NOV. 2024 — The Account conducts a conversation covering ranging topics: chaos, the uncanny, & California.

2024 SEASON — Mary-Alice Daniel serves as a mentor for an emerging writer via PEN America’s Emerging Voices Fellowship Program.

2024 SEASON — Mary-Alice Daniel joins the Jury for the California Book Awards.

SEP. 2024 —The International Literature Festival in Berlin hosts a panel on “The Art of Nonfiction.”

JUNE 2024 — Mass for Shut-Ins wins the 93rd annual California Book Award Gold Medal in Poetry.

MAY 2024 —A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing is shortlisted for the 2024 Saroyan Writing Prize.

SPRING 2024 —Michigan Quarterly Review publishes Mary-Alice Daniel’s original Hausa translations in its special African Writing issue.

APR. 2024 — Hayden’s Ferry Review interviews Mary-Alice Daniel in a conversation about influences & originality.

APR. 2024 — Reading and Q&A with the Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing at Scripps College @12PM.

APR. 2024 — Bennington College Poetry Residency. Reading (4/3 @7PM) & conversation (4/4 @12:30) open to the public.

MAR. 2024 — Mass for Shut-Ins is chosen as a finalist for a California Book Award.

MAR. 2024 — Open Books: A Poetry Emporium in Seattle, WA, hosts Mary-Alice Daniel, Rae Armantrout, and Cindy Juyoung Ok @7PM.

MAR. 2024 — Mary-Alice Daniel discusses her pedagogy in a Faculty Spotlight feature profiling teachers at Scripps College.

FEB. 2024 — Brigham Young University hosts Mary-Alice Daniel as a guest speker in its Reading Series.

FEB. 2024 — Reading and conversation in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the African Poetry Book Fund: with Yalie Saweda Kamara & Hope Wabuke.

FEB. 2024 — Panel at the 2024 AWP Writing Conference on crafting a debut poetry collection @1:45PM.

FEB. 2024 — AWP Kansas City Offsite Event: Yale Younger Poets Reading featuring Mary-Alice Daniel, 9PM at Nighthawk.

FEB. 2024 — Bookshop Santa Cruz recommends A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing for Black History Month.

JAN. 2024 — Leslie Sainz, Managing Editor of The New England Review, recommends Mass for Shut-Ins in the winter issue of Poets & Writers.

JAN. 2024 — “The Write Process” Podcast and the UCLA Extension Writing Program host a craft conversation on the process of building a book.

DEC. 2023 — The New York Times Book Review recommends A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing, now out in paperback: “furious beauty.”

DEC. 2023 — Rose Pan-African Education hosts Mary-Alice Daniel’s annual cultural immersion writing workshop in Senegal.

DEC. 2023 — The Africa Report lists Mass for Shut-Ins as one of the year’s notable books: “weaponised.”

DEC. 2023 — The Slowdown Podcast with Major Jackson, in partnership with the Poetry Foundation, features the poem “Bloodroot.”

NOV. 2023 — A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing is available from HarperCollins in paperback.

NOV. 2023 — Brittle Paper features Mass for Shut-Ins on its annual list of notable African books: “thought-provoking.”

NOV. 2023 — The American Poetry Review publishes Mary-Alice Daniel’s lyric essay on Ariana Benson’s Black Pastoral.

NOV. 2023 — The Hopkins Review publishes a conversation/author interview on immigrant narratives.

OCT. 2023 — Book Riot’s list of “African Poets You Need to Read” highlights Mary-Alice Daniel’s work: “gorgeous.”

OCT. 2023 — The Miles Morland Foundation announces its Writing Scholarship shortlist.

OCT. 2023 — Mary-Alice Daniel presents a lecture in the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis interdisciplinary seminar series.

SEPT. 2023 — Washington University in St. Louis hosts a public reading during Mary-Alice Daniel’s residency.

SEPT. 2023 — Mary-Alice Daniel serves as the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the Center for the Literary Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

SEPT. 2023 — Washington University in St. Louis queries its Writer-In-Residence about mentoring students, secret projects, and casting spells.

AUG. 2023 — The Los Angeles Review of Books reviews Mass for Shut-Ins: “bold.”

JULY 2O23 — Mary-Alice Daniel is appointed the 2024 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing at Scripps College.

JULY 2023 — The Poets’ Bridge features Mass for Shut-Ins as its Book of the Week.

JUNE 2023 — Mary-Alice Daniel is in residence as a guest lecturer at the Oxbelly Writers Retreat in Messinia, Greece.

MAY 2023 — Mass for Shut-Ins is now available in the UK/internationally from Yale University Press London.

MAY 2023 — The Berkeley Law Library recommends A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing on its reading list: “captivating.”

MAY 2023 — The Princeton Public Library recommends A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing on its staff reading list.

APR. 2023 — For National Poetry Month, Yale University Press releases live recordings of 3 poems in Mass for Shut-Ins.

APR. 2023 — For National Poetry Month, Mass for Shut-Ins makes the Academy of American Poets’ recommended reading list.

APR. 2023 — Brittle Paper republishes “Disease Map,” a Pushcart-nominated poem that won the Pablo Neruda Prize.

APR. 2023 — Mass for Shut-Ins is recommended reading for National Poetry Month at Arizona State University: “haunting and haunted.”

APR. 2023 — Johns Hopkins University hosts a cross-genre author reading & talk (to be published in an upcoming issue of The Hopkins Review).

APR. 2023 — Cave Canem awards Mary-Alice Daniel a Fellows Grant to support a diasporic Digital Humanities project.

APR. 2023 — The Southern Review of Books reviews Mass for Shut-Ins: “sorcery.”

APR. 2023 — Tertulia features A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing in “10 of the Best Memoirs By Poets.”

MAR. 2023 — P&T Knitwear hosts the NYC launch for Mass for Shut-Ins, ft. Safiya Sinclair, Airea D. Matthews, and Desiree C. Bailey.

MAR. 2023 — Mass for Shut-Ins, Volume 117 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, is available to order.

MAR. 2023 — Brooklyn Poets publishes “Nollywoodland” and an author interview in its Poet of the Week Series.

MAR. 2023 — Chapter 16 reviews Mass for Shut-Ins: “remarkable.”

MAR. 2023 — “One Hell” from Mass for Shut-Ins is Poem of the Week in The Yale Review.

FEB. 2023 — The Poetry Foundation reviews Mass for Shut-Ins: “Plathian.”

FEB. 2023 — Open Country Mag lists Mass for Shut-Ins as a Most Anticipated Book of 2023.

JAN. 2023 — Brittle Paper lists Mass for Shut-Ins as a Most Anticipated Book of 2023.

JAN. 2023 — The Washington Independent Review of Books praises A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: “mastery.”

DEC. 2022 — The New York Times reviews A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: “striking, discerning, and haunting.”

DEC. 2022 — Electric Literature explores the architecting of A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing.

DEC. 2022 — Book Riot recommends A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing.

DEC. 2022 — A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing is highlighted in The Millions: “a joy.”

DEC. 2022 — A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing is the University of Wisconsin Gender & Women's Studies Book of the Week.

NOV. 2022 — Shondaland editor Sarah Nielson conducts an in-depth author interview.

NOV. 2022 — Lit Hub publishes an introduction to A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing.

NOV. 2022 — McNally Jackson hosts the launch event for A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing.

NOV. 2022 — USA Today spotlights A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing as a “must-read.”

NOV. 2022 — People picks A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing as its “breathtaking” Book of the Week.

NOV. 2022 — Kirkus names A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing one of the “Best Nonfiction Books of the Year.”

NOV. 2022 — San Francisco Chronicle reviews A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: “sublime.”

NOV. 2022 — Vulture recommends A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing as a best new release: “lucid and poetic.”

NOV. 2022 — Real Simple recommends A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: “Top Picks for Every Taste.”

NOV. 2022 — “Good Morning America” selects A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing for its holiday reading list.

NOV. 2022 — Debutiful calls A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing a “can’t miss” book.

NOV. 2022 — Poets & Writers lists A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing as a “New & Noteworthy” title.

NOV. 2022 — Ms. Magazine recommends the “moving” and “masterful” A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing.

OCT. 2022 — The Root highlights the “beautifully written” A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing.

OCT. 2022 — Booklist gives A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing its 3rd Starred Review.

OCT. 2022 — Kirkus Reviews gives A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing its 2nd Starred Review: “absolutely fascinating.”

JULY 2022 — Publishers Weekly gives A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing its 1st Starred Review: “incandescent… a gem.”

JUNE 2022 — Brittle Paper lists the cover of A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing as one of the best covers of the year.

APR. 2022 — Book Riot lists A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing as one of the “Best Nigerian Books.”

MAR. 2022 — Mass for Shut-Ins is chosen as the 117th winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize.