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Danielle Pafunda Danielle Pafunda (1977-    ) is an American poet and novelist. She grew up outside of Albany, NY. She studied at Bard College and University of Georgia (footnote 4). Danielle Pafunda is best known for her poetry books, My Zorba (2008) and Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies (2010)1¬. She also has one popular collection of poems entitled “The Dead Girls Speak in Unison” among others 2. Pafunda has been honored with a University of Wyoming Mortarboard Top Prof award1.

Life

Danielle Pafinda grew up outside of Albany, NY8. She currently lives in Laramine, Wyoming. Danielle Pufunda has a disability called Fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a common syndrome in which a person has long-term, body-wide pain and tenderness in the joints, muscles, tendons, and other soft tissues (footnote 11). She claims the pain is inarticulable that she must speak in metaphors about what she is feeling; thus also manifesting in her poetry. In 2006 she became a mother and now does most of her writing between the hours of 10pm and 2am. Danielle Pafunda was three years old when she read her first book Fox in Socks. She always felt that her world was composed and informed by books. Pafunda read everything from classic literature, comic books, trendy horror, romance, poetry anthologies, and encyclopedias8.

Career and Degrees

Danielle Pafunda is an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming, she teaches English and gender and Women’s studies and is an associate of the M.F.A. Creative Writing Program3. She is on the board of directors of VIDA, she does blogs for Montevidayo and for Delirious Hem, and she also edited La Petite Zine, an online journal, for seven years1. Danielle Pufunda’s teaching and research interests include feminist poetics, feminist theories, girl studies, fairy tales and monsters, modern and contemporary poetry, disability poetics and literature, and LGBTQ literature (footnote 1). She attended Bard College from which she holds a Bachelors Degree of Arts and New School University from which she graduated with an M.F.A. in poetry, she also holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Georgia4.

Works

Pafunda has a number of poetry books; she is the author five poetry collections 5. Among those books Pretty Young Thing (2005), a book of poems that talk about illness as well as ecstasy6. Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies (2010) is another book Pafunda is known for, this book is a sci-fi epic and holds poems about strong women and their struggles7. Pafunda’s poems have been chosen three times for Best American Poetry. They also appear in a number of famous magazines and journals such as American Poet, Denver Quarterly, The Huffington Post, and others1.

Themes

Danielle Pafunda’s work is gothic, grotesque, feminist, and experimental. She is interested in experimenting with affect as much (if not more than) language and form. Danielle Pafunda takes a lot of her cues from poets who came before her such as Emily Dickinson, Maria Loy, John Berryman, LeRoi Jones, and Sylvia Plath. She also takes various cues from fashion and pop culture8. List of Works

Pretty Young Thing (2005) My Zorba (2008) Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies (2010) Manhater (2012) Natural History Rape Museum (2013)

References:

1.	http://www.uwyo.edu/wmst/faculty_staff/pafunda_danielle%20.html

2.	http://www.thenepotist.org/post.cfm/danielle-pafunda

3.	http://daniellepafunda.blogspot.com/

4.	Pafunda, Danielle; interview, 2012

5.	http://daniellepafunda.blogspot.com/

6.	http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/879176.Pretty_Young_Thing

7.	http://www.amazon.com/Iatrogenic-Their-Testimonies-Danielle-Pafunda/dp/1934819077

8.	http://femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com/post/10888740994/danielle-pafunda-poet

9.	http://www.mylife.com/c-1903113375

10.	Beauty is a verb: The New Poetry of Disability. Edited by Jennifer Bartlett, Shelia Black, and Michael Northen, 2011.

11.	 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001463/?report=printable