Dana Gioia date of birth:
December 24, 1950
How old is Dana Gioia?
75
Where was Dana Gioia born?
Hawthorne, California, USA
What is Dana Gioia nationality?
American
What is Dana Gioia's occupation?
writer, critic, poet, businessman
Short Biography
Michael Dana Gioia (born December 24, 1950) is an American poet and writer. Gioia also served as the Chairman of the federal arts agency the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). He was born in Hawthorne, California to Italian and Mexican parents, attended Stanford and Harvard Universities, and spent the first fifteen years of his career writing at night while working for General Foods Corporation. After his 1991 essay "Can Poetry Matter?" in the The Atlantic generated international attention, Gioia quit business to pursue writing full-time. Gioia has published four books of poetry and three volumes of literary criticism as well as opera libretti, song cycles, translations, and over two dozen literary anthologies.