Danusha Laméris

Danusha Laméris was born in 1971 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of Blade by Blade (Copper Canyon Press, 2024); Bonfire Opera (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020); and The Moons of August (Autumn House Press, 2014), selected by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2013 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize.

Laméris teaches poetry independently and lives in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains in coastal California.