Darcie Dennigan

Darcie Dennigan (born 1975 in Rhode Island) is an American poet and playwright.

Life Dennigan received a Bachelor of Arts in literature from the University of Massachusetts and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan.

Dennigan is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the Wilbury Theatre Group's playwright-in-residence.

Dennigan lives in Providence, Rhode Island. and The Parking Lot and other feral scenarios. She is also the author of the novel Slater Orchard: En Etymology and the plays Dolores Goes to Poetry City, The Pleiades, RESCUE! Or, The Fish, as well as Happy End, an adaptation of Mónica de la Torre's The Happy End / All Welcome.

Dennigan's review of Dean Young's The Art of Recklessness entitled "A Review?" is, according to Stephen M. Morrow, not in fact a review at all, but an enactment of the very ideas that Young puts forward in his book. After a string of welcomes for various readers, including the "two lit-crit geeks up late at night who found this by googling John Barth", Dennigan recounts an anecdote about Gertrude Stein, explains her own teaching style, riffs on a quotation from Donald Barthelme, and says of the book that "Rather than studying it, you’d do better to tear out its pages, eat them, and let Dean Young’s excited ink stimulate your spleen into writing poems...".

Honors and awards 2007 Discovery/The Nation 2007 Poets Out Loud Prize (for Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse) 2011 Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America 2019 Anna Rabinowitz Award from the Poetry Society of America Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Poetry Fellowship