About

Daniella Toosie-Watson (she/they) is a poet, visual artist and educator from New York. They have received fellowships and awards from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, VONA, the InsideOut Detroit Literary Arts Project and the University of Michigan Hopwood Program. A winner of the 2020 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, Daniella’s work has been published in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Callaloo, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, the Cincinnati Review and elsewhere. They were the profile writer for the John F. Kennedy Center’s Next 50 and is currently a Visiting Professor of Literary and Critical Studies at Pratt Institute. Daniella received their MFA from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program.