Denise Duhamel has published three chapbooks: It’s My Body (Egg In Hand Press, 1992), Skirted Issues (Stop Light Press, 1990), and Heaven And Heck (Foundation Press, 1988,1989,1990.)
Becque Olson performs Denise Duhamel’s Barbie-poems in a one-woman show This Is Nothing New. Her poems have also been staged by actors at the Medicine Show, New York City. As first-prize winner in the Last Poem competition, her poem “Fear On 11th Street And Avenue A, New York City” was developed into a poetry video. She has read her poems widely and has been a guest on Jack Veasey’s radio show Verbatim and Watch This Space, a television program on Central Pennsylvania’s WITF.
A New York Foundation for the Arts recipient, Denise Duhamel has had residencies at Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a BFA from Emerson College. She has been resident poet at Bucknell University and has taught at the West Side Y’s Writer’s Voice in New York City. She lives with her husband, the poet, Nick Carbo.