Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, PhD is a professor, poet, literary critic, and writer at Fordham University in New York City. She is also the Associate Director of Fordham’s Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. Her publications include two chapbooks and eight full-length collections of poems, among them Andalusian Hours (2020), a collection of 101 poems that channel the voice of Flannery O’Connor, and Love in the Time of Coronavirus: A Pandemic Pilgrimage (2021). O’Donnell has published a memoir, Mortal Blessings; a book of hours based on the practical theology of Flannery O’Connor, The Province of Joy; and a prize-winning biography Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith. Her critical book on Flannery O’Connor Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O’Connor was published by Fordham University Press in 2020.  O’Donnell’s most recent poetry collection, Holy Land (2022), won the Paraclete Poetry Prize. Her eleventh collection, Dear Dante, poems written in conversation with Dante’s Commedia, will be published in April of 2024. http://angelaalaimoodonnell.com/