Literary Firsts

Danielle Jones-Pruett is a graduate of the MFA program in poetry at The University of Massachusetts Boston. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in DMQ Review, Midway Journal, Verse Daily, and others. She was the winner of the 2011 Vella Poetry Prize and the recipient of the Mary Doyle Curran scholarship. She lives in Salem with her husband and two sons.

Danielle is the poet for the January 21 reading.