Darby Price is a poet and hybrid writer, an educator and a curriculum designer. Born and raised in Southeast Louisiana, she earned her BA (English - Creative Writing) at Florida State University and her MFA at George Mason University, where she was a Heritage Fellow and the Poetry Editor for Phoebe. Her poetry has appeared in No Contact, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Redivider, and Zócalo Public Square, among others, and her reviews and interviews have appeared in The Collagist (now The Rupture) and The Southeast Review. Her debut, a lyric memoir titled All the Lands We Inherit, will be published by Black Lawrence Press in June 2025.

 

Darby is a Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, where she also served as Assistant Course Director for Writing 50. She has taught literature, creative writing, and rhetoric to talented youth and college students, and has developed curriculum for PEN America, UC Irvine, and WriteGirl Los Angeles.