ABOUT

Ja'net Danielo is the author of Eclipse (JackLeg Press, 2027) and two chapbooks, This Body I Have Tried to Write (MAYDAY & M3 Books, 2022) and The Song of Our Disappearing (Paper Nautilus, 2021). She has been awarded grants from the de Groot Foundation and the Arts Council for Long Beach and has been a winner of the River Heron Editors' Prize, the Fischer Prize, and the Dorland Prize, an honorable mention for the Tom Howard Prize, and a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize, the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, and the Lascaux Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Journal, North American Review, swamp pink, and Diode, among other places. Originally from Queens, NY, Ja'net lives in Long Beach, CA, where she facilitates Word Women: Poetry Heals, a free virtual poetry workshop series for cancer patients and survivors.