Nan Mallet Fry (August 6, 1945 – September 23, 2016)[1] was an American poet and essayist, known for her award winning book of poetry, Relearning the Dark.
in Medieval Studies and a PhD in English at Yale University before settling in the greater DC area.
[4] For over ten years, she coordinated a poetry reading series at Westmoreland Church in Bethesda, Maryland.
Fry authored an award-winning[5] book of poetry, Relearning the Dark (Washington Writers Publishing House, 1991) and a chapbook of riddle poems translated from Anglo-Saxon, Say What I Am Called (Sibyl-Child, 1988).
[6] Her poems appeared on posters in the transit systems of DC, Baltimore, and Ft. Collins, Colorado as part of the Poetry Society of America’s “Poetry in Motion” Program, on a Bethesda Poetry Bench Project, and in numerous anthologies, including Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller’s Cabin, Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast, The Beastly Bride, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, The Faery Reel, Rye Bread: Women Poets Rising, Hungry As We Are: An Anthology of Washington Area Poets, and The Poet’s Cookbook: Recipes from Germany.