About the Author
Danielle Cadena Deulen is the author of four books and a chapbook. Her most recent poetry collection, Desire Museum was published with BOA Editions in 2023 and won a 2024 Lambda Literary Award. Her previous publications include Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us, which won the Barrow Street Book Contest, American Libretto, which won the Sow’s Ear Chapbook Contest; The Riots, which won the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction and the GLCA New Writers Award; and Lovely Asunder, which won the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize and the Utah Book Award. She served as a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She has been the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, an Oregon Literary Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. Her poems and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poem-a-Day (poets.org), Poetry Daily, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Copper Nickel, Smartish Pace, The Cincinnati Review, and the Pushcart Prize XLVII: 2023 edition. She is co-creator and host of "Lit from the Basement,” a literary podcast and radio show (KMUZ 100.7 FM). Originally from the Northwest, she now makes her home in Atlanta where she teaches for the graduate creative writing program at Georgia State University.
You can hear her read from her work at Vanity Press.
Danielle Cadena Deulen is the author of four books and a chapbook. Her most recent poetry collection, Desire Museum was published with BOA Editions in 2023 and won a 2024 Lambda Literary Award. Her previous publications include Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us, which won the Barrow Street Book Contest, American Libretto, which won the Sow’s Ear Chapbook Contest; The Riots, which won the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction and the GLCA New Writers Award; and Lovely Asunder, which won the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize and the Utah Book Award. She served as a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She has been the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, an Oregon Literary Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. Her poems and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poem-a-Day (poets.org), Poetry Daily, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Copper Nickel, Smartish Pace, The Cincinnati Review, and the Pushcart Prize XLVII: 2023 edition. She is co-creator and host of "Lit from the Basement,” a literary podcast and radio show (KMUZ 100.7 FM). Originally from the Northwest, she now makes her home in Atlanta where she teaches for the graduate creative writing program at Georgia State University.
You can hear her read from her work at Vanity Press.