Danielle Chapman is a poet, nonfiction writer, and lecturer in English at Yale University. Her memoir, Holler: A Poet Among Patriots (2023) and her second book of poems, Boxed Juice (forthcoming, 2024) are published by Unbound Edition Press. Her debut poetry collection, Delinquent Palaces, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2015.
Chapman's poems have appeared widely, including in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, and Poetry. Two chapters from Holler appeared originally in The Oxford American, and the opening essay will be part of the debut issue of Revel, a literary journal edited by Atsuro Riley and launching in Fall 2023. Chapman has written poetry criticism for The Yale Review, The Threepenny Review, The Financial Times and The New York Times Book Review.
Danielle was an editor at Poetry beginning in 2003, as well as a consulting editor to The Poetry Foundation. From 2007 through 2013 she served as the Director of Literary Arts and Events for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, where she created programs to serve Chicago’s writers, publishers, and literary community.
Since 2013, Danielle has taught in the English Department at Yale. She currently teaches Shakespeare and the Craft of Writing Poetry, a hybrid literature/ creative writing course that pairs poetry from Shakespeare's plays with contemporary poems.
Danielle lives in Hamden, CT, with her husband, Christian Wiman; their twin daughters, Eliza and Fiona; and their rescue dachshund, Rosie.
"Everything is alive and fully charged in Chapman’s poetry of ardor and loss, survival and renewal as she revels in the music of language..."
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