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BIOGRAPHY

 

ROSEMARY DANIELL'S forthcoming memoir is My Beautiful Tigers, which recently won the William Faulkner-William Wisdom gold medal for best Nonfiction Book. Her most recent publication, The Murderous Sky: Poems of Madness and Mercy, which also won a William Faulkner-William Wisdom gold medal for best collection of poetry. Her essay, “The One Who Breaks My Heart,” is included in Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex, edited by Erica Jong and published by Ecco/Harper Collins, 2011. Her book, Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives, was published by Henry Holt and Company in May, 2006. It's prequel, The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself: Writing and Living the Zona Rosa Way, was published by Faber & Faber, in 1997. Her memoir, Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex and Suicide in the Deep South (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980; Henry Holt & Company, 1989; Hill Street Press, 1999) won the 1999 Palimpsest Prize for a most-requested out-of-print book, and was re-issued that same year. Along with her second memoir, Sleeping with Soldiers (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984; Hill Street Press, 2003), which was also published as part of the Book of the Month Club’s Library of Erotic Classics, it was a forerunner of the current memoir trend. She is the author of five other books of poetry and prose, including and a collection of essays, Confessions of a (Female) Chauvinist (Hill Street Press, 2001), a novel, The Hurricane Season (William Morrow & Company, 1992); two collections of poetry, A Sexual Tour of the Deep South (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1975; Push Button Publishing, 1994) and Fort Bragg & Other Points South (Henry Holt & Company, 1987); a chapbook, The Feathered Trees, was published by Sweetwater Press. Among her awards are two N.E.A. Fellowships in creative writing, one in poetry, another in fiction, as well as the William Wisdom-William Faulkner gold medal in poetry for a poem from her recently completed collection, The Murderous Sky: Poems of Madness & Mercy. In addition to her many publications in literary magazines, her features and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines and papers, including Harper’s Bazaar, New York Woman, Mademoiselle, The New York Times Book Review and Mother Jones; she has also been a guest on many national radio and television shows, such as Merv Griffin, Donahue, The Diane Rehm Show, Larry King Live and CNN’s “Portrait of America.” She is profiled in the book Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975. In 2008, she received a Governor’s Award in the Humanities for her impact on the state of Georgia; early in her career, she instigated and led writing workshops in women's prisons in Georgia and Wyoming, served as program director for Georgia's Poetry in the Schools, and worked for a dozen years in Poetry in the Schools programs in Georgia, South Carolina, and Wyoming. She is also the founder and leader of Zona Rosa, a series of creative writing workshops in Savannah and Atlanta, and cities throughout the world, as described in People and Southern Living magazines, and over 400 Zona Rosans and counting have become published authors.