Daisy Bassen is a poet and community child psychiatrist who graduated from Princeton University's Creative Writing Program and completed her medical training at The University of Rochester and Brown. Her work has been published in Salamander, McSweeney's, Smartish Pace, Crab Creek Review, New York Quarterly, Little Patuxent Review, and [PANK] among other journals. She was the winner of the So to Speak 2019 Poetry Contest, the 2019 ILDS White Mice Contest, the 2020 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, and the 2022 Erskine J Poetry Prize. She was nominated for the 2019, 2021, and 2022 Best of the Net Anthology and for a 2019, 2020, and 2023 Pushcart Prize. Born and raised in New York, she lives in Rhode Island with her family.

Other poems on the web by Daisy Bassen:
Two poems
Two poems
"burning bright"
"(CHERITA)"
"Scale"
"Unfortunately, "
"An accounting"
"Madame Bovary, c'est moi"
"PROTESTATION"
"Nineteen years of mourning correctly?"
"Fourteen lines that have nothing to do with your dick"
"What's More"
Three poems

Daisy Bassen's Website.

About The Louisville Review: