ABOUT

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 (2021), a winner of the Paper Nautilus Debut Series Chapbook Contest. She is a recipient of a Courage to Write Grant from the de Groot Foundation, a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council for Long Beach, the Telluride Institute's Fischer Prize, and an honorable mention in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in swamp pink, Diode, The Maine Review, Frontier Poetry, and In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), 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.