Tory Dent

Tory Dent graduated from Barnard College and received an M.A. from NYU. She was a fellow at MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and finalist in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the National Poetry Series, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and the Walt Whitman Award. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, a Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, and three PEN grants for Writers with AIDS.