Donna Denizé is an American poet and award-winning teacher at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. who is Chairwoman of the English Department.
She has received grants from the Bread Loaf School of English (using the accommodation of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford), Johns Hopkins Summer Writing Program, the Humanities Council of Washington, DC, and the Folger Shakespeare Library.
In 2003, she was awarded by Williams College the George Olmsted, Jr., Class of 1924 Prize for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching,[2] and in 2004, she was appointed to the Board of Trustees of American Shakespeare Center, a national destination and resource for audiences, actors, students, scholars, and educators, based at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia.
Denizé published a selection of poems titled The Lover's Voice in 1997 (Hickory House Press) and Broken Like Job[8] ISBN 0-915380-60-9 in 2005 (The Word Works).
She has published essays like 'Use of Color in Selected Shakespearean Works' in Folger Shakespeare Library and 'A Scholar's Journey: Reflections on W.E.B.