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Ja’net Danielo

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Ja'net Danielo is the author of This Body I Have Tried to Write, winner of the MAYDAY 2022 Poetry Micro Chapbook Editors' Choice Award, and The Song of Our Disappearing (Paper Nautilus, 2021). A recipient of a Courage to Write Grant from the de Groot Foundation, a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council for Long Beach, and the Telluride Institute's Fischer Prize, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in swamp pink, Diode, Raleigh Review, Frontier Poetry, and In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), among other places. Originally from Queens, New York, Ja'net lives in Long Beach, California, where she facilitates Word Women: Poetry Heals, a free virtual poetry workshop series for cancer patients and survivors.

Website: https://www.jdanielo.com/