Danika Myers
Danika Myers
Teaching Assistant Professor of Writing
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Danika Myers is a member of the University Writing Program faculty at George Washington University. Her poetry often engages women’s traditional textile work, and has previously appeared in journals including Beloit Poetry Journal and Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion. She won the Editor’s Prize in Poetry from Meridian in 2004, was nominated for a Pushcart in 2006, and was a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Student Fellowship in 2006. In 1999 she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study literary translation in Quito, Ecuador. Danika lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where she spends her free time starting more knitting projects than she finishes and running very, very slowly.
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“Celestarium” and “All the Lovely Ladies, Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion. Fall 2015, Issue 14
“A Final Revelation” and “I Am Accused.” Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry. Spring 2013, Issue #26.
“What’s Not Closed Comes Again” Chesapeake Reader. Fall 2007, Vol I, No. 2.
“On Doubt” 32 Poems. Fall 2007, Vol 5, No. 2. 15
“Late Fruit.” Nimrod International Journal. Spring/?Summer 2007, Vol. 50, No.2. 173.
Seven poems from My Risky Undertaking. Practice: New Art + Literature. 2007. 1-8
“Burning the Hives”. Crab Orchard Review. Fall (2006): 135
Selected also for publication on Verse Daily on August 6, 2006:
http://www.versedaily.org/2006/burninghives.shtml
“Riparian Strip, Willamette River and Belden Creek.” Beloit Poetry Journal. Spring (2006) 16-23
Nominated for Pushcart Prize by Beloit Poetry Journal
“After the Open Heart.” Meridian: The Semi-Annual from the University of Virgina. Spring/Summer
(2004): 52
Recipient of the Meridian’s Editor’s Prize in Poetry, 2004
“Harvest.” So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art. Winter/Spring (2004): 72
M.F.A. Creative Writing (Poetry) George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, May 2006
B.A. Creative Writing and Spanish, cum laude, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, May 1999.
Phi Beta Kappa