Daisy Fried (born 1967, Ithaca, New York) is an American poet.
[1] Fried graduated from Swarthmore College in 1989.
[7] She teaches creative writing in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, and has taught creative writing as the Grace Hazard Conkling Poet-in-Residence at Smith College,[8] at Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, Villanova University, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
She has written prose about poetry for Poetry,[9] The New York Times[10] and The Threepenny Review[11] and has been a blogger for Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation.
She lives with her husband, Jim Quinn, a writer[12][13][14] (not the radio talk show host), and their daughter, in Philadelphia.