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Danielle Pieratti's poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Boston Review, Ninth Letter, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. She is the author most recently of Approximate Body (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2023), and her first book, Fugitives, (Lost Horse Press, 2016) was selected by Kim Addonizio for the Idaho Prize and won the Connecticut Book Award for poetry. Transparencies, her translated volume of works by Italian poet Maria Borio, was re-released by World Poetry Books in 2025.
Danielle holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and has additional degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, SUNY at Albany, and the University of Connecticut, where she was a 2024-2025 Humanities Institute Dissertation Fellow. She has received additional funding from Columbia University, the Connecticut Office of the Arts, and the Bread Loaf Translators' Conference. Danielle served as poetry editor for the international literary journal Asymptote from 2023-2025 and currently teaches at the University of Connecticut, where she directs the Connecticut Writing Project-Storrs. She is working on a manuscript of translingual poems that draw from Dante's Purgatorio in translation. |
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Books
Approximate Body (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2023)
Transparencies by Maria Borio (World Poetry Books, 2022), translated from Italian by Danielle Pieratti
Fugitives (Lost Horse Press, 2016), selected by Kim Addonizio for the 2015 Idaho Prize, winner of the 2017 Connecticut Book Award, and finalist for the Hudson Prize and the Autumn House Poetry Prize
Transparencies by Maria Borio (World Poetry Books, 2022), translated from Italian by Danielle Pieratti
Fugitives (Lost Horse Press, 2016), selected by Kim Addonizio for the 2015 Idaho Prize, winner of the 2017 Connecticut Book Award, and finalist for the Hudson Prize and the Autumn House Poetry Prize
chapbooks
The Post, the Cage, the Palisade, Dancing Girl Press 2015
By the Dogstar, winner of the Edda Chapbook Competition, Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press 2006
By the Dogstar, winner of the Edda Chapbook Competition, Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press 2006
awards, honors, fellowships
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Fellow, 2024-2025
Perkoff Prize Finalist, 2024
Connecticut Office of the Arts Artist Fellowship Award, 2023
Bread Loaf Katherine Bakeless Nason Scholarship, 2023
University of Connecticut LCL Award in Literary Translation, 2020
Connecticut Book Award Winner for Poetry, 2017
Lost Horse Press Idaho Prize for Poetry, 2015
Hudson Prize Finalist, 2015
Autumn House Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015
May Sarton NH Poetry Prize Honorable Mention, 2015
Connecticut Writing Project-Storrs Teacher Consultant Writing Award, 2015
Aetna Fellow, Connecticut Writing Project Summer Institute, 2014
Wesleyan Writers Conference, Women’s Club Scholarship, 2012
Hartwick College New American Writing Festival, Visiting Writer, 2006
Edda Chapbook Award for Women, 2005
Gulf Stream Poetry Prize, judged by Campbell McGrath, 2nd & 3rd Place, 2004
The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry, 2004
Columbia University Benjamin T. Burns Poetry Fellowship, 2002
Carnegie Mellon Adamson Creative Writing Award, Nonfiction, 2000
Perkoff Prize Finalist, 2024
Connecticut Office of the Arts Artist Fellowship Award, 2023
Bread Loaf Katherine Bakeless Nason Scholarship, 2023
University of Connecticut LCL Award in Literary Translation, 2020
Connecticut Book Award Winner for Poetry, 2017
Lost Horse Press Idaho Prize for Poetry, 2015
Hudson Prize Finalist, 2015
Autumn House Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015
May Sarton NH Poetry Prize Honorable Mention, 2015
Connecticut Writing Project-Storrs Teacher Consultant Writing Award, 2015
Aetna Fellow, Connecticut Writing Project Summer Institute, 2014
Wesleyan Writers Conference, Women’s Club Scholarship, 2012
Hartwick College New American Writing Festival, Visiting Writer, 2006
Edda Chapbook Award for Women, 2005
Gulf Stream Poetry Prize, judged by Campbell McGrath, 2nd & 3rd Place, 2004
The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry, 2004
Columbia University Benjamin T. Burns Poetry Fellowship, 2002
Carnegie Mellon Adamson Creative Writing Award, Nonfiction, 2000
journal publications
"Purgatorio 5: At the Ferry Crossing," forthcoming in Ninth Letter
"Purgatorio 1: Small Hours," and "Purgatorio 6: Hilton Garden /Inn/," forthcoming in Diagram
"Introduction," forthcoming in Mid-American Review
"Purgatorio 2: Rising Sounds on the 8th Floor," AGNI, 2024
"A Memory of Snow," reprinted in Verse Daily, 2023
"Rubric for Burying a Hen," reprinted in The Dewdrop, 2023
"A Memory of Snow," Meridian, 2022
"Woman Planting," Typehouse, 2021
"Mothers of Boys," The Shore, 2021
"Morning Swim at Low Tide," Ambit, 2021
"Rubric for Burying a Hen," Dialogist, 2020
"Matins," Mid-American Review, 2020
"Myths," New Square, 2019
"Elegy With Pine Nuts in its Mouth," Long River Review, 2019
"Autumn," Radar Poetry, 2019
"Ars Poetica," Cream City Review, 2019
"Triptych," The Dewdrop, 2019
“Rupture, or Midnight at the Woodpile,” Yemassee, 2014
“Postcard from the Tropics,” Barn Owl Review, 2014
“Scouting,” Sixth Finch, 2013
“In the Hayloft” & “Malediction,” Absent Magazine, 2011
“Anniversary” Poems, Inkspill, 2011
“Review,” Projector, 2011
“Still Life with Wonder,” Centaur, 2011
“Daylight,” Rhino, 2008
“A Reckoning,” Watchword, 2008
“Love Poem,” Boston Review, 2005
“Ginger” Poems (5), The Paris Review, 2004
“Floating Under Ice Down the Hudson River” & “Still Life with Hen,” Gulf Stream, 2004
“Invocation” & “The True Story of the Horse Trader’s Girl,” Tulane Review, 2004
“Training” Poems (2), Western Humanities Review, 2003
"Purgatorio 1: Small Hours," and "Purgatorio 6: Hilton Garden /Inn/," forthcoming in Diagram
"Introduction," forthcoming in Mid-American Review
"Purgatorio 2: Rising Sounds on the 8th Floor," AGNI, 2024
"A Memory of Snow," reprinted in Verse Daily, 2023
"Rubric for Burying a Hen," reprinted in The Dewdrop, 2023
"A Memory of Snow," Meridian, 2022
"Woman Planting," Typehouse, 2021
"Mothers of Boys," The Shore, 2021
"Morning Swim at Low Tide," Ambit, 2021
"Rubric for Burying a Hen," Dialogist, 2020
"Matins," Mid-American Review, 2020
"Myths," New Square, 2019
"Elegy With Pine Nuts in its Mouth," Long River Review, 2019
"Autumn," Radar Poetry, 2019
"Ars Poetica," Cream City Review, 2019
"Triptych," The Dewdrop, 2019
“Rupture, or Midnight at the Woodpile,” Yemassee, 2014
“Postcard from the Tropics,” Barn Owl Review, 2014
“Scouting,” Sixth Finch, 2013
“In the Hayloft” & “Malediction,” Absent Magazine, 2011
“Anniversary” Poems, Inkspill, 2011
“Review,” Projector, 2011
“Still Life with Wonder,” Centaur, 2011
“Daylight,” Rhino, 2008
“A Reckoning,” Watchword, 2008
“Love Poem,” Boston Review, 2005
“Ginger” Poems (5), The Paris Review, 2004
“Floating Under Ice Down the Hudson River” & “Still Life with Hen,” Gulf Stream, 2004
“Invocation” & “The True Story of the Horse Trader’s Girl,” Tulane Review, 2004
“Training” Poems (2), Western Humanities Review, 2003
international publications
"Daylight," Ademar Soares Jr. tr., Piparote, 2022
"Invocation," Ademar Soares Jr. tr., Piparote, 2022
"Malediction," Ademar Soares Jr. tr., Piparote, 2022
"Daughters, Daughters," Ademar Soares Jr. tr., Piparote, 2022
“Floating Under Ice Down the Hudson River,” Jazra Khaleed tr., Teflon, 2022
“Daughters, Daughters,” Jazra Khaleed tr., Teflon, 2022
“Review,” Jazra Khaleed tr., Teflon, 2022
“Ginger and I in Winter,” Jazra Khaleed tr., Teflon, 2022
“Still Life with Hen” Jazra Khaleed tr., Teflon, 2022
“Ginger and I Discover Our Power to Disappear,” Jazra Khaleed tr., Teflon, 2022
“Still Life with Hen,” Viktoras Iliopoulos tr., Defekt – Teknik, 2022
“Daughters, Daughters,” Viktoras Iliopoulos tr., Defekt – Teknik, 2022
“Malediction,” Viktoras Iliopoulos tr., Defekt – Teknik, 2022
"Invocation," Ademar Soares Jr. tr., Piparote, 2022
"Malediction," Ademar Soares Jr. tr., Piparote, 2022
"Daughters, Daughters," Ademar Soares Jr. tr., Piparote, 2022
“Floating Under Ice Down the Hudson River,” Jazra Khaleed tr., Teflon, 2022
“Daughters, Daughters,” Jazra Khaleed tr., Teflon, 2022
“Review,” Jazra Khaleed tr., Teflon, 2022
“Ginger and I in Winter,” Jazra Khaleed tr., Teflon, 2022
“Still Life with Hen” Jazra Khaleed tr., Teflon, 2022
“Ginger and I Discover Our Power to Disappear,” Jazra Khaleed tr., Teflon, 2022
“Still Life with Hen,” Viktoras Iliopoulos tr., Defekt – Teknik, 2022
“Daughters, Daughters,” Viktoras Iliopoulos tr., Defekt – Teknik, 2022
“Malediction,” Viktoras Iliopoulos tr., Defekt – Teknik, 2022
TranslationS
"A Word Misunderstood, A Siege: An Interview with Maria Borio on the Italian Lyric," Asymptote, 2025
Excerpt from Sirene, by Laura Pugno, Tupelo Quarterly, 2023
"The City and the Writer: In Assisi with Maria Borio," Words Without Borders, 2023
"Riverbed," by Maria Borio, Poetry Daily, 2022
"Seventh Scene," by Maria Borio, Words Without Borders, 2022
"Creatures," "To know how to approach," & "Exposed I," by Maria Borio, The Offing, 2022
"Isola" and "Dorsoduro," by Maria Borio, Asymptote, 2021
"Shelter" and "Limits," by Maria Borio, Alchemy, 2021
Three poems by Maria Borio, New Poetry in Translation, 2021
"Miniatures 1," by Maria Borio, Ambit, 2021
"[When I was born my mother]," by Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto, Words Without Borders, 2020
"From the Red Desert," by Maria Borio, Words Without Borders, 2020
Three poems by Martha Canfield, World Poetry Review, 2019
Excerpt from Sirene, by Laura Pugno, Tupelo Quarterly, 2023
"The City and the Writer: In Assisi with Maria Borio," Words Without Borders, 2023
"Riverbed," by Maria Borio, Poetry Daily, 2022
"Seventh Scene," by Maria Borio, Words Without Borders, 2022
"Creatures," "To know how to approach," & "Exposed I," by Maria Borio, The Offing, 2022
"Isola" and "Dorsoduro," by Maria Borio, Asymptote, 2021
"Shelter" and "Limits," by Maria Borio, Alchemy, 2021
Three poems by Maria Borio, New Poetry in Translation, 2021
"Miniatures 1," by Maria Borio, Ambit, 2021
"[When I was born my mother]," by Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto, Words Without Borders, 2020
"From the Red Desert," by Maria Borio, Words Without Borders, 2020
Three poems by Martha Canfield, World Poetry Review, 2019
interviews, articles, and multimedia
“The Poet’s Version: Translation as Creative Practice,” The Poetry Foundation
Working on Gallery, article on visual poetics, October, 2023
Sant Jordi USA Online Programming, with Maria Borio, April 25, 2023
Grolier Hybrid Reading, with Alex Braslavsky and Marguerite Feitlowitz, 2023
Colloquy: Translators in Conversation, with Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer in conversation with C. Francis Fisher and Matvei Yankelevich, event transcript in Hopscotch Translation, 2023
A Night of International Queer Writing at the Rally Reading Series, with Nazlı Karabıyıkoğlu, R. Joseph Dazo, John Bengan, Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto, and Jeffrey Angles, 2020
Working on Gallery, article on visual poetics, October, 2023
Sant Jordi USA Online Programming, with Maria Borio, April 25, 2023
Grolier Hybrid Reading, with Alex Braslavsky and Marguerite Feitlowitz, 2023
Colloquy: Translators in Conversation, with Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer in conversation with C. Francis Fisher and Matvei Yankelevich, event transcript in Hopscotch Translation, 2023
A Night of International Queer Writing at the Rally Reading Series, with Nazlı Karabıyıkoğlu, R. Joseph Dazo, John Bengan, Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto, and Jeffrey Angles, 2020
