Dana Gioia

Comprehensive information about Dana Gioia including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Michael Dana Gioia (born December 24, 1950) is an American writer, critic and poet. He retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full-time. From January 29, 2003, until January 22, 2009, he was chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the U.S. government's arts agency, and has worked to revitalize an organization that had suffered bitter controversies about the nature of grants to artists in the late 1980s and early 1990s.. American writer critic poet and businessman This educational Dana Gioia resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.