Danielle Legros Georges

Danielle Legros Georges (she/elle/li) was born in Gonaïves, Haïti, and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti–Congo Story (Beacon Press, 2025), Blue Flare: Three Haitian Poets (Zephyr Press, 2024), The Dear Remote Nearness of You (Barrow Street, 2016), and Maroon (Curbstone Press, 2001), and the translator of Island Heart by Ida Faubert (Subpress, 2021). She is the editor of two anthologies, Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (Pangyrus, 2023) and City of Notions: An Anthology of Contemporary Boston Poems (Boston Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture, 2017).

Legros Georges earned an MFA in English and creative writing from New York University. She has received recognitions and fellowships from institutions including the American Antiquarian Society, The Studios at MASS MoCA, the Boston Foundation, the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund. In 2014, she was appointed the poet laureate of Boston. In 2016, Emerson College awarded her an honorary doctorate of humane letters.