Ann Daly: Author Biography
ANN DALY has 25 years of experience as a writer and editor in daily journalism, trade publications, and academic publishing.
She is the author of the
award-winning Done Into Dance: Isadora
Duncan in America and a volume of collected works, Critical
Gestures: Writings on Dance and Culture. Ms. Magazine praised the collected works as "impressive" — "a rich, well-written collection" of "thoughtful analysis." Her most recent book is When Writing Becomes Gesture, a limited edition volume hand-sewn and hand-bound by the author.
Daly has written cultural commentary for the New York Times, Village Voice, Chronicle of Higher Education, and NPR's "Marketplace." Her essays have been commissioned by the American Dance Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Her articles on dance, performance, and culture have appeared in scholarly publications including American Studies, Dance Research Journal, Dance Theater Journal, Journal of American History, Performing Arts Journal, TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, Theatre Journal, and Women & Performance.
She is a former editor of TDR and a former president of the Dance Critics Association.
Daly has also served as editor of Lighting Dimensions magazine, a trade journal for lighting professionals, and as a staff feature writer for the Pittsburgh Press.
Most recently, Daly founded a publishing company, Wollemi Pine Press.