Danniel Schoonebeek

Discipline: Poetry

Based In: Delhi, NY

Year at Millay: 2015

Awards/Honors: Grant Recipient, Creative Writing Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC (2019); Fellow, Literature, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany (2018); Fellow, Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL (2015); Prize Winner, NPS Open Competition, The National Poetry Series (2015).

Website: https://dannielschoonebeek.com

Danniel Schoonebeek is the author of Trébuchet, winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series and published by University of Georgia Press in 2016. His first book of poems, American Barricade, was published by YesYes Books in 2014 and named one of the year’s ten standout debuts by Poets & Writers, as well as “a groundbreaking first book that stands to influence its author’s generation” by Boston Review

In 2015, he was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and recent work appears in the New Yorker, PoetryKenyon Review, the Believer, and Tin House. A recipient of awards and honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poets House, Oregon State University, and Akademie Schloss Solitude, he has been the editor of the PEN Poetry Series since 2013 and hosted the Hatchet Job reading series in Brooklyn from 2012–2016.

He is also a co-organizer and founding member of the nonprofit arts collective Bushel (est. 2015), located in the low-population, Upstate New York village of Delhi.