Denise Duhamel’s most recent books include Ka-Ching! (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005; winner of Binghamton University’s Milt Kessler Book Award), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999); and Kinky (Orchises Press, 1997). She co-edited, with Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad, Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull, 2007). A bilingual edition of her poems, Afortunada de mí (Lucky Me), translated into Spanish by Dagmar Buchholz and David Gonzalez, was released with Bartleby Editores (Madrid) in 2008.

A recipient of an NEA Fellowship, Denise Duhamel is an associate professor at Florida International University in Miami. She has read her work on NPR and as a featured poet on the PBS special “Fooling with Words,” hosted by Bill Moyers. William D. Waltz, in Rain Taxi, writes "As I read her work...I feel like I'm taking a sneak peek at the future: Duhamel hints at a poetry that transcends irony and alienation. There's plenty of both here, but she's busy working them over...pushing so hard that the next step may be beyond what is known."