Chenée Daley is a Jamaican-born, New York–based multi-genre writer whose work spans poetry, prose, and song. Rooted in tender narratives of personal histories, her writing explores the intersections of place, memory and exile. She has received first place in the University of the West Indies Writing Prize, the Small Axe Review Caribbean Writing Prize, and a Denis Diderot [A-I-R] fellowship from Château d’Orquevaux in Ardenne, France. She has twice been awarded the Catwalk Art Residency and was shortlisted for the Eddie Baugh Poet Laureate of Jamaica Prize.
Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Jamaica Observer, Small Axe Journal, The Cordite Review, American Chordata, Forgotten Lands magazine and BOMB magazine. She holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University.