Craft Between Worlds

Mary-Alice Daniel is a Nigerian American poet and cross-genre writer born near the Niger/Nigeria border. Her debut poetry collection, Mass for Shut Ins, was selected by Rae Armantrout as a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Her memoir A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing (Ecco, 2022) was named one of Kirkus’s best nonfiction books of 2022 and explores religion, migration, myth, and the uncanny across three continents.

About the Living Writers Series
The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public.

Sponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, The Humanities Institute, The Laurie Sain Endowment, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.