Ja’net Danielo

Ja’net Danielo is the author of This Body I Have Tried to Write, winner of the MAYDAY 2022 Micro Chapbook Poetry Contest Editors’ Prize, and The Song of Our Disappearing, a winner of the Paper Nautilus 2020 Debut Series Chapbook Contest. 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), among other places. Additionally, her poem “Metastasis” was a finalist for the 2023 Lascaux Prize in Poetry. 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.You can find more about her and her work at www.jdanielo.com.