Donna Denizé is an American poet and award-winning teacher at St. Albans School, located in Washington, D.C. Ms. Denize is currently Chairwoman of the English Department. She has contributed widely to journals and magazines with essays and poetry, written books of collections of poetry, participated in development of professional training programs for teachers as well as programs for students of multiple public schools. Some of her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines and she has contributed to some Corporation for Public Broadcasting print and video media.
In 1980 she served through appointment by Governor Charles Robb to The Virginia State Advisory Board on Vocational Education. In 2003, she was awarded by Williams College the George Olmsted, Jr., Class of 1924 Prize for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching, and in 2004, she was appointed to the Board of Trustees of American Shakespeare Center, a national destination and resource for audiences, actors, students, scholars, and educators, based at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia. She currently teaches literature at St. Albans School, where she teaches Shakespeare, American literature, and freshman English, serves as chair of the Faculty Diversity Committee and faculty advisor of the school's literary magazine and during the summer teaches in the Washington National Cathedral's summer program called Cathedral Scholars, an outreach program of academic enrichment which serves students from 15 different D.C. public schools. She is a recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award from the White HousePresidential Scholars Program. Denizé has been invited/appointed to numerous workshops, panel discussions, readings and other responsibilities at:
Denizé's poetry has appeared in the book Hungry As We Are. Denizé published a selection of poems titled The Lover's Voice in 1997 and Broken Like Job in 2005. She has also been a contributor to scholarly books and journals, including Shakespeare Set Free, , Gargoyle Magazine's Gargoyle 49 CD, and Orison. She has published essays like 'Use of Color in Selected Shakespearean Works' in Folger Shakespeare Library and 'A Scholar's Journey: Reflections on W.E.B. DuBois and the Power of Education' in Teacher's Digest, an educational magazine from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Denizé has also contributed to programs of National Council of Teachers of English, National Endowment for the Humanities, Mobil Masterpiece Theatre, the Annenberg Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution.
