Deirdre Fagan

Deirdre Fagan is an award-winning multi-genre author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and literary criticism. Recently featured on NPR, ABC, and CBS television and radio, as well as in Newsweek and HuffPost, Fagan is a Best of the Net finalist and Pushcart-nominated author of a poetry collection, Phantom Limbs (Finishing Line Press, 2023) and a chapbook of poetry, Have Love (Finishing Line Press, 2019); a Booklist recommended reference book, Critical Companion to Robert Frost (Facts on File, 2007); a Shelf Unbound Indie Notable 100, National Indie Excellence, Living Now (IPPY), and Readers’ Favorite award-winning memoir, Find a Place for Me: Embracing Love and Life in the Face of Death (Regal House Publishing, 2022); and an Eric Hoffer and Next Generation Indie Book award finalist short story collection, The Grief Eater (Adelaide Books, 2020). Described by Kirkus Reviews as a “sharply descriptive writer,” Fagan’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and critical essays on poetry, memoir, and pedagogy have appeared widely in literary and scholarly journals and anthologies, popular newspaper and magazines, and encyclopedias. Notably, Fagan’s essay on Emily Dickinson’s “unutterable word” was included in foremost literary critic Harold Bloom’s Modern Critical Views. Fagan is also poetry editor at Orange Blossom Review. Fagan holds a doctorate in Humanistic Studies (English and Philosophy) and a master’s in English from University at Albany, SUNY, and a bachelor’s in English from University at Buffalo, SUNY, and has taught university courses in writing and literature for nearly three decades. She is a native New Yorker who has also lived in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, and Maryland. Fagan currently resides in Michigan where she is a professor, assistant department chair, and coordinator of the creative writing in the English, Literature, and World Languages department at Ferris State University.