Danielle Pieratti's first book, Fugitives (2016, Lost Horse Press), was recently recognized as a finalist for the 2017 Connecticut Book Award. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Boston Review, Barn Owl Review, Rhino, and other journals, and she received The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry in 2004. She is the author of two chapbooks: “By the Dog Star," the 2005 winner of the Edda Chapbook Competition for Women, and “The Post, the Cage, the Palisade," published by Dancing Girl Press in 2015. Danielle holds an MFA from Columbia University and is a teacher-consultant for the National Writing Project. She currently teaches high-school English in Connecticut, and runs regular writing workshops and retreats for teacher-writers through the Connecticut Writing Project at the University of Connecticut. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two young children.