Ja'net Danielo

Poet

Long Beach, CA
California US
Email: 
jdanielo@outlook.com
Website: 
www.jdanielo.com

Author's Bio

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 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 and the Telluride Institute's Fischer Prize, an honorable mention in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, and a finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Prize and the Lascaux Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming 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.

Publications & Prizes

Chapbooks:
This Body I Have Tried to Write (Mayday, 2022)
,
The Song of Our Disappearing (Paper Nautilus, 2021)
Journals:
Diode
,
Maine Review
,
swamp pink
Prizes won: 
  • 2025 James Hearst Poetry Prize Finalist for "The Historical Present"
  • 2024 River Heron Editors' Prize for "Upon Reading That after the Universe Was Born, It Let Out a Primordial Hum,"
  • 2024 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest Honorable Mention for "Migration"
  • de Groot Foundation's 2023 Courage to Write grant
  • 2023 Lascaux Prize in Poetry Finalist for "Metastasis"
  • MAYDAY 2022 Micro Poetry Chapbook Contest Editors' Choice Award for This Body I Have Tried to Write
  • 2021-2022 Professional Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council for Long Beach
  • Telluride Institute's 2021 Fischer Prize for "We Thank the Veteran for His Service"
  • Paper Nautilus 2020 Debut Series Chapbook Contest for The Song of Our Disappearing

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Diane Seuss, Ross Gay, Victoria Chang, Hanif Abdurraqib, Cecilia Woloch, Tiana Clark, Dorianne Laux, John Murillo, Kendra DeColo, Maggie Smith
What I'm reading now: 
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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Italian American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Queens Village, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Queens Village, NY
New York
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Last update: Jan 09, 2025