Kate Daniels is the author of six poetry collections, a memoir of poetry and psychoanalysis, and editor of Muriel Rukeyser’s selected poems, Out of Silence. A former Guggenheim fellow, she is the Edwin Mims Professor of English Emerita at Vanderbilt University, and now teaches writing in the New Directions program of the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She has particular interests in the health humanities, working with people in addiction recovery and living with cancer. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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