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Donna Masini

Donna Masini is the author of three collections of poetry and a novel. She was awarded the Barnard Women Poets Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship with the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York City.

Donna Masini

Donna Masini is the author of three collections of poetry and a novel. She was awarded the Barnard Women Poets Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship with the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York City.

Books by Donna Masini

  • Turning to Fiction: Poems

    Donna Masini

    Paperback, 2006

    Daring and witty, erotic and searching, these poems explore the ways we suffer and are changed by our losses.
  • About Yvonne: A Novel

    Donna Masini

    Paperback, 2013

    "A haunting novel of sexual obsession." —The New York Times Book Review
  • 4:30 Movie: Poems

    Donna Masini

    Paperback, 2020

    In highly charged, dazzling language, 4:30 Movie explores a sister’s death and the ways movies shape our imaginations.
  • Turning to Fiction: Poems

    Donna Masini

    E Book, 2014

    Daring and witty, erotic and searching, these poems explore the ways we suffer and are changed by our losses.
  • 4:30 Movie: Poems

    Donna Masini

    E Book, 2018

    “Urgent, varied poems… playful, surprising and sad by turns, or meditative.” —Washington Post