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Desiree C. Bailey

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Biography

Desiree C. Bailey is the author of What Noise Against the Cane (Yale University Press, 2021), winner of the 2020 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. She is also the author of the fiction chapbook In Dirt or Saltwater (O’clock Press, 2016) and has short stories and poems published in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, American Short Fiction, Callaloo, the Academy of American Poets and elsewhere. Desiree was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Awards

2020 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize

Years Attended

2021 Adult's Festival Participant, 2023 Adult’s Festival Participant

Desiree C. Bailey

Author
Trinidad & Tobago, USA
Events Featuring Desiree C. Bailey
2023
Take Three: Desiree C. Bailey, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa and Samantha Thornhill
Festival Programme Event
Poetry Event
Event Date: April 28, 2023 @ 3:00 pm
Old Fire Station
2021
Raised Voices: Rosamond S. King & Desiree C. Bailey
Festival Programme Event
Event Date:
Online