Dacia Price
PhD in English Creative Writing, University of Missouri, Columbia—in progress
MFA in Creative Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Northern Michigan University
BA, English & Comparrative History of Ideas, University of Washington, Seattle
- Creative Nonfiction
- Writing at the Intersection of Science and the Humanities
- Animal Studies
- Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene
Dacia Price is an interdisciplinary creative nonfiction writer with a keen interest in exploring the human, animal, and ecological bodies. She is a PhD Candidate and D.R. Francis fellow here at Mizzou. Her essays can be found in DIAGRAM, West Trade Review, New Ohio Review, Willow Springs, Storm Cellar, and others. Her essay collection “This is for the Naming” won Chestnut Review’s 2022 Chapbook Contest and her chapbook “Maah Daah Hey” is forthcoming with Flat Iron Foothills press. Her essay “Mitosis” [originally published with The Forge Literary Review] was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays anthology of 2023.