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Paula Dáil was born and raised in San Diego, California. Following several years in Catholic girls boarding school under the guidance of French nuns she went on to receive an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado-Boulder and earn both MS and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Dáil’s post-graduate academic career was spent primarily at Virginia Tech, where she achieved early tenure and became founding director of the Center for the Study of Poverty. Later, while at Iowa State University as a research professor, she directed the Child Welfare Research Project. The focus of her research career has been on poverty, particularly among women, and during her years as a professor she became widely published in the social sciences.

After leaving academia Dáil pursued a different writing career. For several years she was the resident bleeding heart liberal and fire-breathing feminist editorial and feature storywriter, and columnist, for a small newspaper syndicate in Southwest Wisconsin. She left that job to write more creatively, and has become an award-winning playwright and novelist. Her script "Choices..." was written for a Hospice project that earned a 2004 national Telly Award. Her novel Uneasy States of Grace has been sent to Dreamworks Studio in Hollywood for movie consideration. The sequel, A Widow of the Roman Church, will be available in Spring 2010.

Currently Dáil is under contract with McFarland Publishing Company to write a non-fiction book detailing the lives of women in poverty in 21st century America.

Follow this link to Dáil writing to read excerpts from Uneasy States of Grace, A Widow of the Roman Church and America the Ugly: Female and Poor in the 21st Century.